Re: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!

[Ben Frantzdale <frantzdb admin arhs net>]

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Michael Stearne wrote:

> 
> 
> 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. 

Aside: I've always found that drag CD to trash incredibly counter
intuative. My fave is the way dos/windows deals with its floppy. Saying
"hey, give that back" If it isn't done writing, or "it's not there" if
there's no disk, but otherwise not complaining.

--Ben

>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
> 
> 
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