I have made a mock-up of a different solution to this that I have been thinking of for a while - see the attached image, sorry it is highly compressed Basically, the suggestion is that we add a bar at the top of the icon view (where the 'search' and 'cd burning' headings go) that advises the user that they are browsing a portable device and tells them how to unplug it - there is an eject button there as well. The mock-up also shows an eject button in the places sidebar - which I think would be great too. the other thing we could do is to use the notification system to notify the user of how to unplug a device every time they plug one in - Ubuntu have a notification bubbles that tell the user when they get it wrong (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutoUnmountNotifications) - but I think it's better to tell them before they loose their data :) Who On 9/14/06, David Prieto <frandavid100 gmail com> wrote:
I've noticed that some people coming from windows have trouble removing USB devices and the like, because they don't quite know what to do to "safely remove the device". They come from windows and they're used to look into the system tray to unmount removable. There's no way for them to know that they have to right-click the desktop icon, then navigate the options they're given until they find the "secret" (as in "doesn't show on any other desktop icon") eject option. The drive applet offers a handy solution for those people, and remains unobstrusive because you don't even see it unless there's a device in, but you can access it anytime without having to show the desktop. So I think it would be a good thing to have it included on the panel by default. Another good solution would be to get a notification balloon each time a USB device is inserted, to inform the user about the needed procedure, and a second one to inform them that the device can be removed, just like windows does. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
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