Re: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!

["Iain" <nodatadj webtribe net>]

> Users shouldn't HAVE to learn things,

    Users have to learn things, a computer is not a simple object like a
television and so there is, and should be a learning process involved.

> they should have the option of
> learning things if they want to.  You can avoid the the blue screen, by
> locking the eject button on a CD drive like Macs do.  Mounting and
> unmounting of media is done right on the Mac, why can't this method just
> be used in Linux?  Have a "Trash" Can on the Desktop and drag the CD
> there to unmount it.

    And whats wrong with having an unmount command in the menu?

> There is no reason to re-invent the wheel if there
> is a suitable solution out there. Just because a method is used by
> another OS besides Linux doesn't mean it is wrong.

    And it doesn't make it right either.

    Hmm, "Lets see, I want my disk back, so I'll drag it to the place that I
drag stuff when I want it deleted." Not exactly the most logical of things
is it?

Iain