Re: Distinguishing among [unmount, Safely Remove Drive, Eject]

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 05/06/2018 09:42 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 05/06/2018 09:26 AM, Brian wrote:
> > On Sun 06 May 2018 at 15:53:05 +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
> >
> > > On 06/05/18 07:35, Brian wrote:
> > > > On Sat 05 May 2018 at 11:06:25 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > What are the distinguishing features of unmount, Safely Remove 
> > > > > Drive, and
> > > > > Eject?

[*SNIP*]

> > Although it is from a few years ago, the material at
> >
> >    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598690
> >
> > could still be useful. Safely Remove Drive and Eject are associated
> > with DEs, although Xfce seems to manage without them and has unmount as
> > an only option.

Just got a chance to look at it, has points in common with my problem.
It, and related bugs, will be worth a detailed read.
I'm suspecting that there were explicit choices made that I wouldn't.
Or, to paraphrase a truism, "You can satisfy some of the people all of 
the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not 
satisfy all of the people all of the time."

> > [snip]
> That explains a lot. Will have to wait till this afternoon to read your 
> reference.