Internal partitions should be mounted at boot, and not shown on the Desktop (same behavior as main partition)
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Bug Description
I have several partitions on my hard drive and they are accessible by default from the desktop as icons, except for the main ubuntu partition.
Technically, I understand that these partitions are mounted volumes, so they show up just like any other external drive.
But as an average user, it's unlikely that I would want to unmount these partitions. What for? So, the main interest of these icons, that are "permanent", is file access.
Wouldn't it be more logical to have all of my partitions to show up, including my main one, to give access to all my files directly from the desktop?
For me, this is a design issue, because as it is, I have only access to "half" of my files from the desktop, which doesn't make it my first choice for file access. Still, I can't remove these icons because I don't want to unmount.
My point is, although I know it's not everyone that has several partitions, it would perhaps be less confusing to have the home folder by default on the desktop.
Thanks for your time.
| ShawnJGoff (shawnjgoff) wrote | #1 |
| David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #2 |
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| status: | New → Incomplete |
| AymericT (aymeric-thebaud) wrote | #3 |
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| status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
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| milestone: | none → round-9 |
| cenoura (maggico89) wrote | #4 |
| AymericT (aymeric-thebaud) wrote | #5 |
| David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #6 |
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| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
| summary: |
- Partitions icons on desktop and file access + Internal partitions should be mounted at boot, and not shown on the + Desktop (same behavior as main partition) |
| David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #7 |
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| status: | Triaged → Invalid |
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| milestone: | round-9 → none |
I don't think these should be on the desktop at all (possibly with the exception of thumb drives). I would say to put them under the "places" menu until I realized that today, with computing more mobile, "places" does not sound like where I would want to look for files.