Public bug reported:
Context was in testing and reporting bug #1011257 (reports a functional
problem with actually using this dialogue). I noticed that when you go
into "Edit Mount Options..." on a volume, the dialogue you get has an
"Automatic Mount Options" switch at the top, which defaults to "ON".
In this state, the rest of the dialogue is greyed out.
You have to switch that switch *OFF* to be able to ungrey the rest of
the dialogue, set some options, and save them to /etc/fstab.
This seems backwards to me. :-) Surely you should be switching the
options *ON* to be able to edit and save them.
As such this is a user interface / usability issue rather than
functionality.
Maybe the problem is a misreading of the ON/OFF switch. Maybe it's
currently written so that ON means "treat entirely automatically, in the
default way" and OFF means "allow manual configuration". But the wording
is a bit ambiguous and I (with fairly good English language skills) read
it the other way: that the switch labelled "Automatic Mount Options"
means to enable the user to set options for mounting that volume
automatically, in which case the logic of the switch is definitely
reversed.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.5.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-5.11-generic 3.4.0
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-5-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.1.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jun 10 19:19:41 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-06-09 (1 days ago)
** Affects: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug quantal running-unity
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automatic mount options switch logic is backwards
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