Re: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!

[Thomas Hedler <thomas hedler fen baynet de>]

On 06-Aug-99 Ben Frantzdale wrote:
> One other anoying thing is that you can't eject the CD with the
> button on
> the CDROM. and you can't eject the floppy with the physical eject
> button
> withought unmounting it first else the computer complians :-)
> --Ben

Where is the problem? If Windows accesses the CDROM and you open the
eject button, you would get a blue screen. If you press <ESC> or
<retry> it sometimes crashes completely. Do you really want this? ;-)

Only because windows has this behaviour it needn't to be a good
behaviour!!!

The users have to learn some things. If they don't want to learn
something they should use windows or better buy a Mac.

Thomas
 
> On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:19:51AM -0500,
>> James M. Cape <jcape@jcinteractive.com> wrote:
>> > Matthias Warkus wrote:
>> > > 
>> > > There's nothing wrong about mounting and umounting media.
>> > 
>> > And there is also nothing wrong with providing a UI to configure
>> > the
>> > system to do it automatically.
>> > 
>> 
>> I don't see what all the complaining about mounting is about. I'm
>> running
>> Debian 2.1 with the official Debian GNOME packages, and when I
>> double-click
>> the cd icon on the desktop it automatically mounts it and then
>> opens up
>> a MC window. To umount you can choose "Unmount" or "Eject" from
>> its context
>> menu. Seems to me that it can't get any simpler than that.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> epg@pobox.com
>> 
>> "Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an
>> abyss.
>>  A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous
>>  looking-back,
>>  a dangerous shuddering and stopping."
>>  --Friedrich Nietzsche
>> 
>> 
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