Re: [Nautilus-list] Usability - death of options 2

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Вячеслав Диконов <sdiconov mail ru> writes:
>
> > > Hundreds of millions of users get by on Windows and Mac without the
> > > preference for what happens on inserting removable media. So the
> > > burden of proof is on you to explain why it is required for a "usable
> > > filemanager" - why is Linux special? 
> > It is special because _supermount_ is not included in the modern 2.4
> > kernels and users have to mount all media manually.
>
> Good, that's the point I wanted you to think through.
>
> The reason Linux is special is because the OS defaults are broken; Mac
> and Windows have smarter behavior. ;-) So a preference or workaround
> here might make sense. But not because it's a good UI, but because we
> are working around broken defaults in the OS we can't change
> short-term.
>
> If a preference is added here, it's not because preferences are good,
> but just because we suck too much to really fix the default behavior.
> Knowing the right thing before adding the workaround is vitally
> important.

But I have to disagree with you here.  I prefer to mount my disks.  I 
like knowing that the zip disk won't eject until all writes are 
complete.  I like knowing that my kid can't hit the eject button on the 
CDROM and disrupt whatever I am working on (like she does on my wife's 
win98 machine several times a day).  I like having buffered reads and 
writes that let -me- work faster and smarter, without having to wait for 
the floppy drive to complete writing.

No matter how many times you say "windows and mac are smarter" you 
aren't going to convince me.  I have daily proof otherwise.

-b I

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