Re: Preventing delayed USB writes
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:50:38AM -0700, Bob McGowan <bob_mcgowan@symantec.com> was heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
> >On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:21:17PM -0700, pedxing <pedxing@gmail.com>
> >was heard to say:
> >>On May 17, 8:50 pm, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtu...@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> >>>To me, ideally, nothing would be written to the flash at all until
> >>>either sync or umount. Yes, I wait.
> >>Yes, I also wait. Because KDE doesn't give the user any indication of
> >>how long to wait, the user has to drop to a terminal, run a sync
> >>command, and wait for the prompt to come back to get any indication of
> >>when it is ok to remove.
> >
> > You may want to take a look at Gnome. In Gnome, removable devices
> >are handled like this: an icon appears on the desktop when the device
> >is inserted. When you're done with the device, you click on the icon and
> >select "safely remove". A window pops up saying "removing device..." or
> >somesuch, and when it goes away it's safe to remove your device (and the
> >icon on the desktop is gone). I don't use Gnome much except as an xterm
> >launcher, so I can't say more than that, but it looks like this aspect is
> >pretty well-designed.
> >
> > I couldn't believe that KDE doesn't do something like this nowadays --
> >Gnome has been doing this for at least a couple years IIRC -- so I
> >downloaded and installed KDE on my desktop to try it out. Apparently
> >the only way to get an icon for your removable device is to click on the
> >"services" tab (intuitively represented by ... a flag?), which shows
>
> Out of curiosity, just where does one find this "services" tab??
Oh, sorry, it's in the file manager (Konqueror), in the left pane,
one of those tabs on the left, most of the way down. I hope that's
clear and correct enough -- I don't generally use KDE and just pulled
it up to check this out.
Daniel
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