Nautilus windows should close on unmount

Thanks for that idea, I reported it upstream:
http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318094

That is fixed with dapper

Just tried it with an USB harddisk on gutsy, and the window changed to my home directory on unmount.

Ciao

Martin

I'm also using gutsy and like Martin Emrich, it's still a problem for me.

Re-opening this bug. It's still happening for me and original reporter

I was about to file the same bug. When I unmount my USB stick, I get redirected to /media.

I was just looking for the same thing; this is still he behavior on Hardy, and it's counter-intuitive.

When one unmounts a device, one expects it to be ejected and off the system, not to launch a new window. It creates clutter and can be confusing to new users.

There must be an easy way to do this, but I don't see any relevant options in man umount (which means nothing, because I'm not all that certain what the options do).

that seems to work using the current version on a cdrom, does anybody still get the issue and could describe easy steps to trigger it?

This is still a problem for me using a fairly up to date hardy.

To reproduce:
 * Plug in a USB stick
 * A nautilus window will open on the media
 * Using the gnome-disk-mounter applet, unmount the usb disk
 * The nautilus window is still open, but switches folder to the home folder.

is that specific to this applet use?

No, I've tried using pumount on the command line, and by opening the 'Computer' window, right clicking on the USB stick and selecting 'Unmount volume'. In both cases the new nautilus window doesn't close and switches the open folder to my home folder.

On My Heardy i have the same action.

This behaviour is also seen on my Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. Would love to have it automatically close.

It's still doing this on Jaunty. It seems like the upstream doesn't want to make this change... does anyone know a workaround? This is amazingly annoying.

You might wanna vote for the corresponding feature suggestion on ubuntu brainstorm: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/14754/

Agreed.

Agree. When i unmout volume which is opened in Nautilus i want that window will close..

I'm of the same opinion. When I unmount something, i dont' want t be redirected to /media or to /home/$USER

Targeting it for round 2 - anyone keen to help fixing it?

Errr... I see I'm not in the majority here, but eyh, I can still give my opinion... ;) Two major principles in HMI ergonomics are :
- to let the user control the GUI,
- to provide users with feedback so that they remain conscious of the system state.

It seems to me that applying this principle here would not lead to redirecting the window to a new place (so that the user keeps control about what happens), but to display a message telling him the /media/usb_blahblah has been unmounted/ejected/whatever. This way, if he mounts a new media, the content will be displayed in the same window.

Unfortunately, it does not use the same window so you end up with several windows you need to close.

I used to just close the window as soon as it came up since I usually use the command line in a terminal window and then umount via the icon on the desktop. But I've accessed the mount via the Places menu recently (and also tried using the GUI to do the copies) and ended up with this annoyance.

I ended up here after gogling for how I could configure Nautilus to close the window.

confirming this. would be just nice if nautilus would close the tab (or window if there is only that one tab) when the media is unmountet. also the user would have a definite feedback that the media was safely removed from the system!

just think about a very common scenario:
- plug in a usb memory drive
- do stuff with it
- click remove/unmount somewhere
- after some seconds the file manager window disappears so also the memory drive can be removed
very intuitive i think...

was this reported upstream already?

Hello,

Except maybe in contexts where you have a lot of windows, and you have
to search among your taskbar to ensure none of your windows is the one
corresponding to the volume you just unmounted...

Martin Lettner a écrit :
> confirming this. would be just nice if nautilus would close the tab (or
> window if there is only that one tab) when the media is unmountet. also
> the user would have a definite feedback that the media was safely
> removed from the system!
>
> just think about a very common scenario:
> - plug in a usb memory drive
> - do stuff with it
> - click remove/unmount somewhere
> - after some seconds the file manager window disappears so also the memory drive can be removed
> very intuitive i think...
>
> was this reported upstream already?
>
>

There could be many ambiguous situations. For example, I use single nautilus window in fullscreen for file operations. It is often sits there in background with the only tab opened. And I do not want that window to close on its own.
So it would be good to make this behavior switchable or configurable (for example - "do not close last window" checkbox)

@Psy[H[]: Ins't this the same as "spatial-mode" VS "navigational-mode" nautilus? I mean, if in "spatial-mode" the unmount should close the window, whether in "navigational-mode" it should show HOME instead. No need for a new switch.

yes, when we use a simple windows with multiple tabs, closing it is not the smartest solution.

Why not change the current dir to computer:/// ??

the current behaviour is a design decision in fact, before that users were being confused by things closing on screen without then clicking on the close button and were reporting bugs about nautilus crashing, not sure that's a right target for a change

+1 to Sebastien Bacher.

It will cause more surprise to the average users. I'm *not sure why this is even being considered for papercuts* !

It no way increases usability of average users.

+1 on Sebastien as well. What about my suggestion ? (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/23293/comments/20)

@Yann Lossouarn: Suggestion regarding feedback notification on Usb removal has been made upstream. :)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587340

Sebastien made a valid point (Although I would prefer for myself that the windows just close automatically). How about this proposal:

When I unmount a volume, the right area of a nautilus window (with the files) goes gray, with a message in the center like "Please wait while writing data to the device" or "The device is being prepared for removal" (for writable devices). After unmounting is complete, the message changes to "The device can now be safely removed" (For non-ejectable devices) or "The CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/whatever has been ejected" with a "Close window" button below.

- The window would not disappear "magically"
- The "Close window" button is bigger than the little [X] and thus is easier to hit, as in most cases this is what the user wants anyways.
- The status of the unmount process is displayed where the user probably had the attention before: in the nautilus window. As unmounting a volume is in our case triggered manually from within nautilus, I do not consider this a "global" event to appear as a black notification bubble in the upper right corner.

Ciao

Martin

That's a solid suggestion from Martin Emrich. I hope this gets implemented :-)

I'd still highly recommend just closing the window, or at least making it an option somewhere. I work in an environment where I'm constantly plugging in and unplugging USB storage devices and I inevitably end up with a zillion windows that I have to close. It's pretty annoying.

@Gary , adding an option to auto-close the window is a feature request ,
Feature requests are not papercuts. Kindly open a separate bug upstream for that.

@David , Bug #386517 is a contradiction to this! Both have a milestone set !
That is "Unmounting a drive sends Nautilus to /media instead of computer:// "

You have set the milestone for Bug #386517 recently, while this is an older one , so is this an invalid papercut ?

Bug #386517 is a better solution due to all the concerns Sebastien has raised [comment #27].

Agreeing with Sebastian and mac_v, this contradicts behavior of another paper cut and there is significant criticism of the behavior proposed here (I'm not saying the proposed behavior is wrong, it's just contentious).

there is some intelligent thinking in nautilus 2.30 for this

comment on the upstream patch that was pushed
"""
This patch checks if a window is displaying or has displayed (in history) the
root folder of the mount using g_file_equal in addition to the existing
g_file_has_prefix checks. Note that this change along with the *existing* code
only closes windows who have navigated solely around the mount. If you have
navigated anywhere else in the window it won't be closed."""