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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Re : Re: Mounting Media
From:       Joseph Wenninger <jowenn () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-07-19 21:00:07
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Hi

The naming of the device icons is still open for discussion. I think this list 
is better suited for that than kde-core-devel / kde-devel where some weird 
things came out.

I'm open for almost any suggestion. But I won't change the naming scheme twice 
a day. 

What do other usability people think ?

Kind regards
Joseph Wenninger

On Friday 19 July 2002 20:47, Klas Kalass wrote:
> Am Friday 19 July 2002 12:46 schrieb inbox@jowenn.at:
> > Hi
> >
> > >(Btw. Is the labelling of the devices accepted now? I think it needs
> > > some=20 work)
> >
> > It's the name it has in CVS and nobody complained about it. At least
> > quite less then about the M$ metaphor myComputer:// (which I had in the
> > beginning of that slave / kded module)
>
> I did not mean the name "devices", personally I do not care how it is
> called. I meant that on my system I get something like:
> CDRom (hdc) mounted at /media/cdrom
> Harddisc (dvd) (not mounted)
>
> That exposes several Problems:
> - I only have one drive which is a DVD drive and the DVD is mounted, both
> links have wrong labels and the "not mounted" one is simply wrong
> - It is really hard to have a quick overview.
>
> I propose the following:
> - Information like "Remote Share" and  "Harddisc" are already in the icon
> so the text is not necessary,
> - the same goes for mounted / not mounted - people who do not understand
> the green dot probably do not understand what mounted means either (because
> they come from a system where no such concept exists).
> - Nobody wants to honestly know that the partition is called hda5, unless
> (s)he needs that information for advanced tasks. So that kind of
> information does not belong there.
>
> I can understand if you do not want to use "drive letters" because they are
> simply wrong in the context of UNIX but what is wrong with simply showing
> the mount point if the media has no name/label, and the name of the
> partition/CD/DVD if such a label exists (like with windows partitions and
> most CD-ROM) ?
> That would make for something like
> Festplatte (/windows/C)
> SuSE DVD (/media/dvd)
> /media/floppy
>
> This has the additional advantage that a user can always easily see the
> path (s)he needs to know when using e.g. mozilla.
>
> And remote shares should have the name of the remote computer as well as
> the name of the share I think, or all shares of one computer should be
> grouped under one entry for that computer.
>
> Apart from all my nitpicking I am actually very happy that we have this
> ioslave now, it makes mounting from a "open/save file" dialog a snap.
>
> Greetings,
> Klas


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