On Sunday 23 of May 2010 21:19:16 Fred Erickson wrote: > Most of the people who are not technical-savvy and want to > remain that way are using Window$ or Macinto$h machines. I > think most Fedora users are geeks or geek wannabe's :-) Don't > dumb down Fedora by removing useful tools from the default > gui installation. For a new user, if a tool isn't listed in a > menu, it's devilish hard to learn of it's existence. +1 ... well, please don't dumb down *anything* even for those non-geek; yet I haven't heard anyone complaining about all the advanced controls on our washing machine ... those who don't understand them simply do not use them, they turn the knob to the appropriate picture and push the start button, it is only me who adds extra rinse (because of allergy), and I really don't want to have that rinse button removed to "satisfy" (ahem!) those not using and understanding it oh, and please, why do we need to use "safely remove" - just to copy Windows not to confuse those not technical-savvy? sometimes I feel like a dumb user too, "safely remove" didn't make any sense to me; until I've read in this thread what it really does, I had no clue that it shuts down the USB power, I thought that it is just a remnant of bad UI design which just took a part of "now you can safely remove the device" and made it into a menu item "safely remove" so, now it seems there is at least _some_ meaning to "remove" - remove the node from /dev (Tommy says "wipe it out from the dev block devices") ... but I've never observed such behaviour, even the "safely removed" devices remain in the list and can be mounted again without unpluging and pluging them in again so, it may be hard to describe what's going to be done using some simple menu item ... but at least "Prepare for removal" or something like that would be 100% more logical than "Safely remove" when (at least in some cases) nothing really gets removed K. -- Karel Volný QE BaseOs/Daemons Team Red Hat Czech, Brno tel. +420 532294274 (RH: +420 532294111 ext. 8262074) xmpp kavol@xxxxxxxxx :: "Never attribute to malice what can :: easily be explained by stupidity."
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