one click on the places sidebar to show volume

I can confirm that this is an issue in Hardy, and I've forwarded it upstream. Thanks for your bug report David, and for helping to make Ubuntu better!

Just to add that this is still an issue even when a password isn't asked for. Clicking on volumes only mounts them and doesn't open a nautilus instance for them.

This is also an issue in the Places menu on the main Gnome toolbar. Every other entry causes a window to appear, but not volumes.

My original query is here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5821830#post5821830

Personally, I think that such a significant inconsistency on the desktop level, which is the first point of contact for all users, should have a high priority. When I demo the Ubuntu live CD to people, they instantly get confused by this. And they haven't even launched an application yet!

This is a very early stage to be knocking the users confidence in themselves or the distro. Could the priority be adjusted?

Hi Jarlath! This bug was rated as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance, specifically the first and last bullet points. While I understand your concern, the actual portion of the Ubuntu community which actively develops is rather small and limited, so issues like non-booting systems, program crashes, and improper configurations are more deserving of higher priorities.

Regardless, this bug is an upstream bug in nautilus and the developers there don't work based on Ubuntu's importance, they consider it within the scope of their own project. However one of the core developers of nautilus picked up on it and discovered the precise cause so I think we are in good hands :)

Thanks for your input.

Thank you Mike! I appreciate that. I've been enjoying the benefits of free software for a long time and understand your comment. Thanks again for your response and for your contribution to this great release!

Jarlath

the bug has been fixed upstream now

This bug was fixed in the package gvfs - 1.0.2-0ubuntu1

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gvfs (1.0.2-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Make sure mount-added is always emitted
      when a mount operation is completed (lp: #269901, #272742)
    - Crash fixes
    - FUSE: Set st_blocks to make du and ls -s work
    - FUSE: Stability fix with concurrent close and reads

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:04:23 +0200

Thanks Sebastien, I can confirm that the issue is addressed after the updates (and a restart). I think Intrepid will benefit from this usability bug being squashed.