Re: Volume handling proposal

["David Adam Bordoley" <bordoley msu edu>]

Alexander Larsson writes: 

> I don't agree. Floppies are very seldom used these days, so i think
> having the "empty floppy drive" icon only in "Computer" is enough. 

By doing this you are essentially hiding the floppy drive from the user and 
restricting the descoverability of the floppy drive for users by nesting it 
in a folder(I've always hated "my computer" for this reason). ARe you really 
sure that floppies are seldomly used? I would think it depends more on the 
target audience. In large corporate installs this may be true, but even in 
university situations I still see non-technical students frequently using 
floppies to transfer work between their home and school machines (despite 
easily available network space). 

> Well, the change was to make the Desktop directory more visible from
> various kinds of file selectors etc. I dunno if clicking on ~/Desktop
> should show the desktop, this needs experimenting. 

In my opinion, ~/Desktop is an implementation detail more than anything 
else. I don't think users should be exposed to this in the spacial ui. So no 
I don't think clicking on it should "show the desktop" I also don't think 
the folder should be shown when viewing "Home" in the spacial ui. 

Another option is to write off "Home" as a unix implemenation detail and not 
include a link on the desktop. The file selector could default ~/Desktop as 
the default folder in this situation, and users might never know about 
"home". Its probably better to encourage users to save files to the desktop 
by default anyway so that they are easily discoverable and can be easily 
manipulated. Users can than create desktop folder such as 
"Desktop/Documents", "Desktop/Music" etc. to store these files in. 

dave