some partitions appear with questionmark icon

Bug Description

Binary package hint: unity

In the unity launcher now the partitions appear. I have an external drive with 4 partitions, and an internal hard drive with 4 more partitions.

1) All the partitions appear, thus 8 items are shown, eating up more then half of the launcher (1080p) - this can be considered an opinion, must not be fixed
2) The internal HDDs partitions have a question mark icon, while they display the HDD icon in nautilus
See the screenshot attached.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.2.16-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-1.28-generic-pae 2.6.38-rc2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-1-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,scale,session,unityshell]
Date: Mon Jan 31 19:39:39 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity

Same thing on Fresh Natty alpha2 64 bits : 2 of my 3 internal HDD drives (the 2 ones where Ubuntu OS is not installed and have only one full partition) appear in left dock with gray "?" icon.

I do not need these icons, as I have the Place menu to put my favorite folders, it takes part of the dock where I prefer put applications icons.

Is there a way to remove them from dock, I didn't find how for the moment (this is not a bug, more a wishlist feature) ?

There is Bug #711671 too; which is also about the '?' icon, but about mounted partitions.
If we are not differentiating mounted/unmounted icons, we could dup it to this bug.

I'm now trying to fix this bug on my spare time.
I'm getting familiar with the necessary APIs.

I can't run Unity to test my code.
I don't understand why is it so difficult to test this.
I followed the instruction in the INSTALL file but I'm not able to start Unity.

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 3.4.6-0ubuntu1

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unity (3.4.6-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

* New upstream release.
- dash times out (LP: #662618)
- possible memory leak in compiz when using places, dashboard
(LP:#720446)
- compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in IconTexture::~IconTexture() (LP: #721907)
- dash - search string not always taken into account (LP: #701569)
- Unity allows you to Quit itself (LP: #705536)
- invisible window border problems (LP: #710271)
- Slowliness in the file places (LP: #710791)
- add super shortcuts to the launcher - logic (LP: #721264)
- key navigation doesn't activate trash, keys, expo or places
(LP:#723141)
- Super-shortcuts for apps, files, and workspace switcher (LP: #617356)
- New launcher tile super key overlay aesthetic (LP: #646712)
- add cursor-key navigation to quicklists (LP: #701543)
- Super key should open Dash (LP: #706713)
- Dash view should use "Prefferred Applications" icons where appropriate
(LP: #708479)
- some partitions appear with questionmark icon (LP: #710809)
- Unity wrongly resizes thumbnails after first opening of Files place
(LP:#721123)
- Change the fading and showing curve effect when hovering the bfb
(LP:#721125)
- Recent files appear duplicated in the Dash (LP: #646758)
- All Applications tab only shows first 100 applications (LP: #660979)
- slide animation typo in unity configuration (LP: #723354)
- Place icons should be in their respective packages (LP: #672447)
- Trash right click menu is positioned incorrectly (LP: #718880)
- Require to use gconf to check on unity and the panel-service if the
accessibility should be enabled (LP: #723699)
* debian/control:
- dep on latest nux
-- Didier Roche <email address hidden> 2011年2月24日 20:16:29 +0100