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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: umount magic
From:       ramagnus () t-online ! de (Rolf Magnus)
Date:       2002-02-12 16:04:53
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On Tuesday 12 February 2002 15:45, Jason Wood wrote:

> Is it possible to have a kill button on the message box? My rationale is
> that if the user is trying to remove a CD, floppy, etc... they don't care
> that things are still using the drive - they just want their CD back. Are
> there any occasions when this would be particularly dangerous to do?

If the user doesn't see a connection between processes. E.g. imagine he has a 
konsole open and from the shell, he started some application. If he sees that 
the cd is accessed by "bash" (because its cwd is on the cd) and kills it, he 
can loose unsaved data in the app. So if such a button were present, at least 
there had to be a warning like: "Kill a process only if you REALLY know what 
you are doing. If not, data loss could occur or your system might become 
unstable", which just sounds too much like windows...

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