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Removable Drives and Media doesn't let me tell F-Spot not to launch when a USB drive containing photos is inserted

Asked by Omegamormegil

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When I insert a USB drive with pictures on it, F-Spot automatically starts, and I don't want it to. Removable Drives and Media Preferences lets me choose what to do when I connect a digital camera, but not when I plug in a USB drive containing photos. I don't see an option to change this in F-Spot either.

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This question was originally filed as bug #253415.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) said : 		#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

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Best Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) said : 		#2

You can disable this by opening your file browser (Nautilus), then going to Edit -> Preferences and selecting the 'Media' tab in the window that opens. You can then change the action for 'Photos' to 'Do Nothing', 'Open Folder' or 'Ask what to do'

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Omegamormegil (omegamormegil) said : 		#3

Thanks for the help Chris, but the issue is not that I didn't know how to disable this feature, but that I can't do it through "Removable Drives and Media".

How is it not a bug that "Removable Drives and Media" lets me control actions related to Digital Cameras but not UBS SD Card Readers?

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Omegamormegil (omegamormegil) said : 		#4

It looks like I should have been more specific in the bug report. Really it's just a feature request, as I imaging it's working the way the designers intended it to.

It is a bug because it's completely counter-intuitive that two completely separate interfaces in the GUI control very similar pieces of functionality.

I see now that Removable Drives and media is specifically a GUI frontend for the settings in gconf>desktop>gnome>volume_manager, but from a user's prospective, it makes no sense to have separate places in the GUI to control similar kinds of actions.

I'm going to resubmit the bug report after coming up with a clearer way of describing the problem I'm reporting. Thanks again for you help.

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Omegamormegil (omegamormegil) said : 		#5

Thanks Chris Coulson, that solved my question.

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Omegamormegil (omegamormegil) said : 		#6

Looks like it's been reported already: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-volume-manager/+bug/202457