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Subject:    Re: [KDE Usability] Users cannot find where to "safely remove" USB
From:       Dotan Cohen <dotancohen () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-04-11 16:35:51
Message-ID: p2v880dece01004110935q351e9cb4h1cc5ad660c092a64 () mail ! gmail ! com
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>> No, USB was intended for connecting peripherals, not removable
>> storage. The connectors are not even reliable for repeated plug/unplug
>> cycles, that is why one must take care to pull _out_, not to shake
>> back and forth.
>>
>
> That is of no interest for the user. Nowadays USB is highly used for
> removable storage, operating systems need to adapt to that. All the
> time some system is not used for what it was intended; but it is used
> because it serves a need.
>

I agree. My comments about "how to implement that" were not
disagreement, rather, they were serious questions. Like I said, the
machine should adapt to the user. Now come up with the technical
implementation.


>> I agree with you 100% here. The computer should adapt to the human,
>> not the other way around.
>>
>
> So true. But then why do you expect the following?
>

I expect that the user will know to operate a mouse, will understand
the concept of a file, and will know to operate common widgets. I do
not expect zero knowledge. The only computer that I have ever heard of
that expects zero knowledge is the Microsoft Surface.

As technology improves (in this case, software) that will be one less
thing that the user will have to know.


>> I do expect that the user will at a minimum know to wait until the
>> computer says "you can remove the device now", whether that be due to
>> the computer's instigation (as is the idea under consideration) or due
>> to the user asking (by using the "Remove Safely" mechanism).
>>
>
> You can not expect that. When I want my device removed, I remove it.

You are reckless or irresponsible. Why you want to go through the
intersection, do you not wait for the traffic light to indicate that
it is safe?


> Be it by error or out of panic after detecting that I am about to
> overwrite some important files. The system has to flatten that out.
>
> Also, with the  »feature « of safely removing available and advocated,
> everyone does it even when the device is not doing anything or has
> long finished reading/writing.
>

Correct.

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