Re: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!
- From: Thomas Hedler <thomas hedler fen baynet de>
- To: gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!
- Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 18:07:35 +0200 (MEST)
On 09-Aug-99 Michael Stearne wrote:
>
>> Before you can drive a car you have to learn the traffic rules.
> We learn traffic rules for the common good because a car is a
> potentially deadly instrument. This is a computer that runs
> Netscape and
> WordPerfect. I shouldn't be able to kill anyone by ejecting my CD
> at the
> wrong time.
OK. Maybe I'm wrong in this point, but you also have to learn to use
the manual or automatic gear.
>> Before I open the CDROM I have to learn to umount them
> Why do I have to learn umount? Why can't I just drag it somewhere,
> say
> "Eject CD" to my computer or press the eject button. It's our
> responsibility as developers to hide things like umount and autofs
> from
> end-users. I can always pull a console up if I want to type
> commands,
> Bill says pointing and clicking is more fun.
But to hide umount and autofs is a distributers point to care of.
The only thing GNOME has to do is to use a menu entry or icon to
mount the CDROM. And this is already here!!! Use the mount applet and
you have an icon for floppy or CDROM.
Thomas
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