On 10/12/2011 05:53 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: ...
usability of the system, and it's getting very frustrating; I'd think that the ability of a regular user to hotplug removable media should be an important thing to have working.
...I thought I'd add an additional comment about having regular users able to hotplug removable media. Actually, the way this is currently set up in Thunar is, IMO, sub-optimal. The Thunar context menu doesn't differentiate between unmounting and ejecting. You can mount, and you can eject. That doesn't suit me at all. So, even when I was using LightDM, I tended to use pmount for controlling the mounting and unmounting of removable media and drives.
This feature of Thunar was deliberate, but I believe I've read from an authoritative source (developer) that it's going to be rectified in a future version.