Am Mittwoch, den 13.07.2005, 14:01 +0200 schrieb Alexander Larsson: > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 16:09 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > > On 7/12/05, Corey Burger <corey burger gmail com> wrote: > > > Some digging led me here: > > > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115763 > > > > Which is a spectacular example of bugzilla 'conversation' gone bad, > > combined with a spectacular example of usability-by-amateur-committee > > gone bad. Yay. :( > > > > Thanks for digging it up, anyway. > > Here is the reasoning: > > I think the drag to trash/delete volume to eject it is stupid. If you > look around you'll see all sorts references to how silly and > undiscoverable people think this is on mac. Apple even added a hack on > OSX where they turn the trash into an eject button when you start > dragging a mounted volume! > > Furthermore, this is not in any way how we do things in Gnome. All > context specific operations like these are done in the context menu, for > all other objects, and DnD always means copy/move. Since we want to be > consistent and encourage this we have decided to not support > trashing-is-eject in Nautilus. > > Now, we do sometimes get mac users of Gnome, so a dialog was added that > explains how you eject if you do this. This dialog only handles the one > case of DnD of the desktop icon to the trash, and not any other place > where volumes appear in the ui. But still, its in no way in the way for > normal usage, and it might help point new Gnome users from the mac into > how things are done in gnome, so I think it makes sense to keep it. ...ok, so no eject on trash, although I pretty often read that people want this and heard a usability guru on radio who kept going crazy about that feature all the time. I guess in that case the desktop icon removal patch which also contained these unmounting bits [1] should be changed to only provide the icon removal actions through the context menu, right? [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-July/msg00150.html -- Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>
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