Another Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog review and some notes on MPT's blog entry

[J.B. Nicholson-Owens]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> I agree; however, no terminology has yet been suggested which creates the
> proper expectations.

Perhaps the language should depend on the kind of device?

   Discs are "ejected".
   Other devices are "unplugged" or "detached"?

> Unfortunately, it is not possible to automatically determine which method
> should be used on a particular system.

Then perhaps ripping should be used everywhere.  I don't know of a CD drive 
made in the past decade that doesn't support ripping.  But I do know of 
machines with multiple drives that have only one drive attached to the analog 
sound headers on the mainboard.

> I run at 1600x1200 and find the sizes quite comfortable.  I think it may be
> possible to use scalable graphics for some UI elements, but in general it is
> quite difficult to achieve good results this way.

On Microsoft Windows 2000 one can resize some UI elements (such as the window 
resize frame, scrollbar, and scroll buttons).  I tried this to get to sizes 
that were more comfortable for my eyes and coordination.  Perhaps that was 
just scaling bitmaps, but the feature was handy to have.

Another note on this--the default size for XMMS UI elements is too small for 
me to read or use at 1600x1200.  I have to blow it up to "double size" to 
begin to use the program.  If I didn't know about the double size menu choice 
(as MPT says about context menus for Nautilus icons), this would be ironic 
because I would have to know where the tiny double size button is before I can 
toggle it on.