RE: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!

[Cory Watson <gphat cafes net>]

I thought I was th only one that thought that was a scary idea;)

At 08:22 AM 8/9/99 -0700, you wrote:
>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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Cory Watson
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