Desktop usability: how to unmount devices?
Nathaniel McCallum
npmccallum at gentoo.org
Tue Sep 7 14:40:46 CDT 2004
On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 12:37 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 08:35:24PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
>
> > 6. Add a small icon to the desktop if a device is mounted. Left-click could
> > bring up a Nautilus window with the content, right-click the usual context
> > menu with the unmount option. Same error box here if device is busy.
> > + safe and consistent
> > + MacOS X does this (and they probably know something about easy user
> > interfaces)
>
> Does MacOS require you to use a context menu to see the unmount option, or
> is there an easier way?
Eject/Unmount is in the context menu, a button on the keyboard, and you
can drag to the trash to unmount eject.
Nathaniel
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