"The device can be safely removed" message in GNOME
 

Hi,
When I was safely removing a pendrive in GNOME there always used to appear a message "You can now safely remove the device" or similiar. Since GNOME 2.30 (I'm not sure) the message hardly ever appears and even if it does appear, it disappear immediately. I think it would be better if a user always saw a message that the media can be removed, even if no data is written to it during the removal. Is this a case of some settings?
Thanks.

No. What happens at times is that either an eject command from the command line, like:
or right-clicking on the device and selecting eject will either: (1) cause the device to disappear from the desktop or (2) cause a little mark about the device icon to disappear or (3) cause whatever is displayed for the device to change, any one of these indicating ejection. With the command line, it will show like:
if it works, and will display an error if not. In the GNOME desktop environment, the eject will either remove the device from the desktop or cause the display about the icon to change.

It might be the icon theme or whatever, but it probably is in how it manages the devices