Scott Balneaves wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 01:19:18PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > >> If the user doesn't know enough to care (or just plain doesn't care) >> about outstanding requests, there's no way to get them to wait anyway. > > Same with right clicking and selecting eject. > > Let me relate a short story on human interface design. > > Older busses in my neck of the woods used to have a "gate" on the back > door in order to get it to open. You had to pass through the gate in order to > get to the door to get off the bus. It was simple, obvious, and failsafe: > if you wanted to exit, you HAD to go through the gate. No one ever had > problems figuring it out. > > Now, in order to save space on newer busses, they've got rid of the swinging > gate, and replaced it with a tactile yellow strip on the door. You push > the strip (which, while long, and vertically aligned, is only about 2 cm > wide), > which triggers the door opening mechanism. > > Even though there's signs EVERYWHERE telling you how to open the door, > I'd estimate 40% of people can't do it effectively. They either stand there, > unsure of how to get the door open, or push too hard on the strip, ringing > the "door being forced" alarm, or don't push hard enough, etc etc etc. > > It's just a bad design. Because it's not blatently obvious what you should > do. > > The same goes for forcing people to right click and select a menu option > to "eject" something that, really, doesn't physically eject (like a vcr tape, > or a cd, etc) anyway. > > ltspfs mounts the media with no cacheing, and unmounts in the background > promptly on idle usage. I've yet to receive a bug report from anyone > of corrupted media because of an early eject. > > It just makes sense: I'm done with the usb key, so I wait for the light > to stop flashing, yank it, and stick it in my pocket. > > It's simple, obvious, and what the users expect. Try explaining to your > grandma why you should "eject" something that doesn't eject? You'll be > reduced to saying "Well, it's just something you have to do." > > And if something's a thing that "just has to be done", why not let the > computer do it?
Somebody should file a bug report with Gnome, KDE and all the distros, to tell them that removable media should be fixed, to be as easy as it is with LTSP. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > </soapbox> > > Cheers, > > Scott > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
