On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 12:02 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > > I wanted to get the Fedora communities opinion on popping up a burn:// > > folder when a blank CD is inserted into the drive. Right now we pop it > > up which makes sense because if you pop in a blank CD most likely you > > want to burn to it. Problems come in when a user is using browser mode > > in Nautilus. If you pop the CD in and out a couple of times you get a > > bunch of burn:// folders. Since you get a CD icon on the desktop which > > you can double click to open up the burn:// folder I am wondering if I > > should turn this off by default. I am of no opinion either way so I > > want to see how everyone else feels. > > I think we should not open it. Not even in spatial mode. I'm off the > opinion that most "automatically open window that can disturb the users > workflow" behaviour is wrong, as it often interfers with peoples use of > the system. Amen. > > What i'm saying is: putting an icon on the desktop or in the computer > location when you insert some media is fine, this actually helps the > user to easier access the media, and the visible change makes it obvious > the computer actually recognized that you did something. Poping up a > window over the current application can break the users current action, > plus it doesn't educate him on the interaction model we're trying to > plant in the users mind (that the cd icon on the desktop represents the > media). I personally don't particularly like adding stuff to desktop either (because I never get to see it there, there's hardly ever empty space on my desktop) but it's anyway infinitely better than annoying windows popping up at all the wrong moments. - Panu -
