From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to fix CDROM/DVD eject mess?
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 12:53:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150203175353.GE2509@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150203133432.05f0bb0e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 01:34:32PM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > By working with people who spent a lot of time with the questions what
> > the default behavior of user interfaces should be. Buttons, especially
> > physical ones, need to give immediate feedback to the user. If they
> > don't give it it, people will look for something else to get what they
> > want.
>
> So spend a day in a location which isn't full of desktop users. In an
> environment where these are systems doing real world work you do not want
> to be having CD-ROMs eject because someone pushed the wrong button or
> because they bumped one.
Even for desktop users, if you said desktop users are using
executables or data files on the removeable storage device, and the
device gets ejected unceremoniously --- even if it was mounted
read-only --- is very likely going to cause the application to crash.
If the user hadn't saved their data before they accidentally bumped
the eject button, the user could be pretty unhappy....
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-03 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-02 13:20 How to fix CDROM/DVD eject mess? Takashi Iwai
2015-02-02 19:03 ` Kay Sievers
2015-02-02 19:34 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2015-02-02 19:45 ` Kay Sievers
2015-02-02 21:12 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2015-02-03 12:36 ` Takashi Iwai
2015-02-03 8:52 ` Oliver Neukum
2015-02-03 13:34 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-02-03 17:53 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2015-02-02 20:02 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-02-02 20:53 ` Ondrej Zary
2015-02-03 12:31 ` Takashi Iwai
2015-02-03 13:39 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-02-03 13:49 ` Takashi Iwai
2015-02-03 13:40 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
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