Hi all, This seems to be the current state of the art:
http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-12/ Look about half-way down, 'Panel & Applets'. Seems pretty good to me. I like things the way they are. A simple right-click menu is all I think is required; unmounting media isn't really that important to users, and the solutions people are proposing would potentially involve making major changes to the desktop for what I think is little benefit. Over-engineering the eject feature should be avoided! This discussion seems geared towards helping novice users in some ways - making the eject feature discoverable, ensuring the user follows the correct procedure. I think unmounting devices is something you have to learn, like powering the computer off properly and not just hitting the power button (thinking pre-APM). All I think we need to do is tell the user if they don't unmount it properly the first time ('Oops, you removed a device without unmounting it correctly. This is bad because... Do it this way next time...') or possibly tell them what to do when they mount a device for the first time. This way, the user should learn to do things the correct way and not panic when their CD drive's eject button doesn't work. Thanks -- Phil Bull philbull.tk _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
