'Browsing Removeable Device' heading in Nautilus. WAS: Re: Drive applet by default



I have made a mock-up of a different solution to this that I have been thinking
of for a while - see the attached image, sorry it is highly compressed

Basically, the suggestion is that we add a bar at the top of the icon
view (where the 'search' and 'cd burning' headings go) that advises
the user that they
are browsing a portable device and tells them how to unplug it - there
is an eject button there as well. The mock-up also shows an eject
button in the places sidebar - which I think would be great too.

the other thing we could do is to use the notification system to
notify the user of how to unplug a device every time they plug one in
- Ubuntu have a notification bubbles that tell the user when they get
it wrong (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutoUnmountNotifications) - but I
think it's better to tell them before they loose their data :)

Who


On 9/14/06, David Prieto <frandavid100 gmail com> wrote:
I've noticed that some people coming from windows have trouble removing
USB devices and the like, because they don't quite know what to do to
"safely remove the device".

They come from windows and they're used to look into the system tray to
unmount removable. There's no way for them to know that they have to
right-click the desktop icon, then navigate the options they're given
until they find the "secret" (as in "doesn't show on any other desktop
icon") eject option.

The drive applet offers a handy solution for those people, and remains
unobstrusive because you don't even see it unless there's a device in,
but you can access it anytime without having to show the desktop. So I
think it would be a good thing to have it included on the panel by
default. Another good solution would be to get a notification balloon
each time a USB device is inserted, to inform the user about the needed
procedure, and a second one to inform them that the device can be
removed, just like windows does.

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