"Safely remove" USB stick

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 17:01 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 04 April 2009 12:46:12 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > >> >> I asked some time ago why there is no Safely Remove option
> > >> >> in Dolphin on my Fedora-10/KDE system,
> > >> >> which I can click on before removing a USB stick.
> > >
> > > You can unmount it either from the dolphin Places panel or from the
> > > Device Notifier.  PoC says you can also umount it from kickoff.
> >
> > I don't seem able to unmount it from the Device Notifier.
> > (Nor from the f-menu.)
> > I have to go to the Dolphin window.
> >
> When you hover over the device name in Device Notifier you should see 
> something like an up-arrow inside a circle.  Clicking on that should umount 
> it, and if it is displayed in dolphin you should see everything disappear.

In fact it unmounts but doesn't disappear. IMHO this is seriously
confusing to the average user. I posted about this (and a couple of
other things) sometime yesterday but I haven't seen any feedback so far.

poc