Re: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!

[Ben Frantzdale <frantzdb admin arhs net>]

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Thomas Hedler wrote:

> 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? ;-)
> 

Obviously not, but If I eject a floppy and windows then trys to access it,
it bitches that it's no longer there, but Linux seems not to stop bitching
untill I give it the disk back and unmount it. With CDs and Zip disks I'd
think (from a ui standpoint) the least the computer could do is try to
unmount it when I hit eject.

--Be

> 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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