hi; On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 22:54 +0100, David Prieto wrote: > > an "undiscoverable" feature is like having no feature at all: only the > > people knowing that there's such a feature will be able to use it, and > > we'd have a whole slew of people bitching and moaning like we did when > > we had the location dialog opened by Ctrl+L in the FileChooser. sure, > > the feature was there - but nobody was able to find it unless told. > > > > personally, I'd take no feature against an undiscoverable one. > > I agree up to a point... however, such a feature would make unmounting > easier even for people unaware of the context menu
I'm not objecting to having a way other than the context menu on the device icon for ejecting a volume that doesn't support auto-ejecting; actually, I'm all for it. the proposed button-on-the-item, though, is not a solution, unless you are prepared to carefully design a way to navigate the menu using a keyboard or any device other than a mouse. believe you me: it's not as easy as it sound. > (which could be added to the help anyway). users don't read the help (unless forced to). you lost. you'll be lucky next time. :-) > As for ctrl+l, do you think it should be removed or was it worth the > complaints in the end? the new FileChooser dialog has an entry with a button and a tooltip, now. so, even though I complained that people should have read the user guide before bitching about the FileChooser "not having an entry for the filename", I was aware that having just a key binding was *not* the most discoverable solution. luckily, Federico solved that. > > it would be an accessibility issue, and I'm positive that the a11y > > people would *not* let this be implemented - and with good reasons. > > I understand that. Can you think of any satisfactory solution to > implement the eject buttons? nope. some time ago, I suggested adding to every menu item for an ejectable device a submenu - which is not an optimal solution in any case, but would at least be accessible. ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.net B: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
