Re: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!

[Michael Stearne <MStearne EISolutions com>]

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? ;-)
> 
> 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.

How will Linux ever be a desktop platform with this thinking?

Users shouldn't HAVE to learn things, they should have the option of
learning things if they want to.  You can avoid the the blue screen, by
locking the eject button on a CD drive like Macs do.  Mounting and
unmounting of media is done right on the Mac, why can't this method just
be used in Linux?  Have a "Trash" Can on the Desktop and drag the CD
there to unmount it. There is no reason to re-invent the wheel if there
is a suitable solution out there. Just because a method is used by
another OS besides Linux doesn't mean it is wrong. 

Michael Stearne