GNOME Media Applet is a panel applet for GNOME to easily mount/unmount removable media.
It's similar (in the purpose) to the drivemount applet but with a nice user interface. It is based on ejecter 0.0.9 a small utility to unmount removable media, by Federico Pelloni.
Installation:
Simply run:
* ./waf configure --prefix=/usr
* ./waf
* sudo ./waf install
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Here are some key features of "GNOME Media Applet":
· Easily mount / unmount removable devices on your system
· Nice user intereface
· Written in Vala
Requirements:
· gtk+
· Vala
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· media-applet can run either as a normal application (with an icon in the notification area) or as an applet
· Unmount all partitions of a removable device with one click
· File Monitor: update the size and free space of a device dinamically
· Better notification system: you can enable/disable notifications (and notifications actions) using the gconf keys (/apps/media-applet/show_notifications and apps/media-applet/show_actions). Notification messages look also more human :)
· "Open with Nautilus" as default action: clicking on each device will always open a new nautilus window for it
· bug fixing: #323813,#318254,#317856 and others
· media-applet is translated in 17 languages
· Updated to vala 0.5.7