Re: eject buttons on the places menu

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

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.

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