USB drive unmount

[Jonas Gauguin]

One of the best things about ubuntu (GNU/Linux-distros) is that it´s NOT the
same as "ordinary" Operating Systems(OS). In my world it´s like this; Learn
it the easy way or learn it the Windows way (especially w. Vista!!!!). This
debate has gone to a more UI-talk han it originally was meant to (my
guess!), but I like philosophic discussions about human behavior..........
If your first OS happens to be in the Ubuntufamily, your whole life seems to
be easier;)

2007/8/8, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg-lists.ubuntu.com at fifthhorseman.net>:
>
> > It's just a bad design.  Because it's not blatently obvious what you
> > should do.
> >
> > The same goes for forcing people to right click and select a menu
> > option to "eject" something that, really, doesn't physically eject
> > (like a vcr tape, or a cd, etc) anyway.
>
> i totally agree that it's poor design and awkward usability.
>
> > ltspfs mounts the media with no cacheing, and unmounts in the
> > background promptly on idle usage.  I've yet to receive a bug report
> > from anyone of corrupted media because of an early eject.
>
> This is great!  But for the record, i don't want all of my USB- or
> IEEE1384-connected storage mounted without caching.  Caching block i/o
> is a really useful optimization, especially if you're using the
> removable media in even a moderately intensive way.
>
> Maybe the best compromise from a usability perspective is to make the
> initial connection as you describe, but allow a user who wants to get
> the benefits of caching to simply and easily turn that feature on.
> The act of turning it on "optimize access" then becomes a learning
> point where the user realizes the attendant responsibility of
> disabling caching again by "ejecting" the device, or whatever you want
> to call it.
>
> I'm sure that someone with better UI skills could come up with a good,
> catchy pair of complementary terms to describe this process.  People
> are already familiar with the "if i turn it on, i need to turn it off
> again" workflow.


Might... But the whole idea with USB (UNIVERSAL serial bus) just disappears.
When an alien (read child, if you´re NOT a believer!!) plugs this device
into another device that fits it´s stupid to ASK for this device to be
unplugged again, the logic thing to do IS to just yank the thing back out,
NOT regarding the "danger" or someones intellectual right to do the
opposite......... (thoughts from
Denmark).........................JOnZ:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

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