RE: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!

[Ben Frantzdale <frantzdb admin arhs net>]

I think people agree that the eject=trash thing is prety much out. I'd say
that this may not be the place for a drag option at all, just a context
menu.(IMHO)

The thing about the mac is that that one software action (the drag to
trash) physicly ejects the disk. For most of us (running on PCs) we have
to right click on the icon, select unmount, then manualy eject the disk.

Can it be set up so that the eject button on the CDROM/zip drive unmounts
and ejects the media? 

--Ben

On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Fox, Kevin M 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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