Re: [Usability] tools on the desktop

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 21:44 +0200, thilo pfennig wrote: 
> Jason Hoover schrieb:
> 
> >Personally, my opinion is somewhere around a hybrid of 4 and 6. The
> >reasons being (per category):
> >
> >1) It doesn't work for joe-point-and-grunt, and you're assuming everyone
> >can right click (tablet PC's), or worse, is smart enough to look there.
> >I've seen cases where people have used screwdrivers on the floppy drives
> >(With Mac OS) because they were so desperate.
> >  
> >
> Well, I can imagine this to be problematic. What do you expect the
> computer to do with a CD-RW? I would expect it to clean the disk.And
> dropping a harddisk should do formatting?... :-)

I don't see how your reply corelates to the text you quoted. However,
I would not expect a CD-RW to be blanked if I were to drag it to the
trash. What if it is already blank? Does dragging a normal file to the
trash just empty the contents of the file, so that it still exists, but
is 0 bytes? Trash does not fundamentally alter the contents of files,
folders, or devices. It is meant to simply remove them in their
entirety. To remove a device in its entirety from the system, would be
to physically eject it, or unmount it, so that it does not appear in
the software running on the system.

> I really think one should not focus on the trashcan.

We aren't focusing on Trash. We are working out ways to improve the
current situation for new users. At this stage of life, new users happen
to come from a Windows or Mac OS background for the most part, and are
not entirely new to using computers. On Mac OS, you eject devices by
dragging them to the trash icon on the dock, which transforms into an
eject icon, when dragging media from the desktop to it. I think it is
best for us to support both of those behaviors, given the current
situation of things.

-- dobey