Public bug reported:
With the introduction of Hardy, the dialogue for setting the policy for
handling the insertion of different media (CD, DVD, Photo flash cards
etc) has been moved from the "Removable drives and media" capplet to the
Nautilus preferences.
Nautilus preferences should have information *only* regarding the
nautilus window. Setting system level policies here is a really bad
usability move. Users neither need to know nor should they care that
nautilus is the program actually handling the HAL events (if indeed it
is). The file manager is not the natural place to look for this option.
Not least because YOU NEED THE FILE MANAGER OPEN in order to find it.
>From the users perspective, the file manager is not always open, and
hence system level settings should be kept well away from it.
This is a serious usability regression. If it is an upstream issue, then
a bug report should be filed (which I am happy to do). Despite the fact
that Nautilus has this option, it is sufficiently non-discoverable that
an alternative move would be to still include the old "Removable drives
and media" capplet and duplicate the options (a crap solution, but
arguably better than the current situation). The natural place to put
options regarding removable drives and media is the "REMOVABLE DRIVES
AND MEDIA" capplet. If there is a desire to remove this capplet, then do
it all or don't do it at all.
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Nautilus should not be the place to set media policies
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214621
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