RE: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!
- From: "Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>
- To: "'Michael Stearne'" <MStearne EISolutions com>, thomas hedler fen baynet de, "'gnome-list gnome org'" <gnome-list gnome org>
- Subject: RE: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 08:22:51 -0700
I agree with everything BUT the trashcan idea. The first time I used a mac,
it scared the hell out of me to eject a disk. Throwing a disk away (when it
normally deletes files) is a BAD design. It scares users. If you want
something to drag over, make an icon on the desktop called "Eject" and drag
your device over that.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Stearne [mailto:MStearne@EISolutions.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 10:55 AM
> To: thomas.hedler@fen.baynet.de
> Subject: Re: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!
>
>
>
>
> 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
>
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