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Subject:    Re: [KDE Usability] Users cannot find where to "safely remove" USB
From:       Dotan Cohen <dotancohen () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-04-06 9:02:31
Message-ID: k2r880dece01004060202wee1a21dck77b9ff5e1524b838 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 6 April 2010 11:57, yahoo-pier_andreit <pier_andreit@yahoo.it> wrote:
>
>> No.
>> The current Eject icon is only visible in mouse over. Making it always visible
>> would solve the problem.
>> Adding the word "Eject" would just create problems with localization. Not in
>> all languages that word is just a few letters long (eg. in German it's
>> "Auswerfen").
>> That would just result in a cramped interface which in turn is another
>> usability problem.
>
> a popup could solve?? maybe yes, non geek users could easily learn by
> this the use of icon couldn't it?
>

There currently exists a tooltip which explains it. However, the users
never see the tooltip as they are not looking for an icon. The users
are looking for words like "Safely Remove" or "Eject". In my own
language it would be nine letters (including a space).

I will bug some users about "what if there were the text here, near
the icon" to see what they think. It is hard for one to determine if
his own ideas are really that clear to others, and in any case as I am
already familiar with the icon I myself am not a good test subject.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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