Re: eject buttons on the places menu

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 4 Jan 2007, at 19:26, David Prieto wrote:

> > Personally, I think the last thing we need is more context menus on
> > menu items... it's probably about the most (unintentionally)
> > undiscoverable feature on our entire desktop.
>
> I might agree, but... how's having an undiscoverable feature worse  
> than
> not having the feature at all?
>
> I'm open to alternative solutions, anyway. Would it be OK if keyboard
> navigation just ignored the eject buttons?

It would perhaps be okay if there was an alternative (but equally  
direct) way for keyboard users to eject things, such as a keyboard  
shortcut when an ejectable device was selected on the desktop, or in  
the Nautilus sidebar or Computer view.  I was actually astonished  
when I just checked (for my reply to Dave elsewhere in this thread)  
that Nautilus didn't already have a context sensitive File->Eject  
menu option, which could presumably be bound to Ctrl+E or something.

The accessibility team would obviously need to confirm this opinion  
though :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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