>> I do not like to sacrifice well-defined, predictable behavior for >> convenience > >Convenience is what users need! > >> but others may argue this default behavior serves the >> greater good. > >What is the *greater good*?
I think the perceived "good" is that users can load a disk and have a useful default action occur automatically. A music CD causes a media player such as rhythmbox to start, media with camera images starts shotwell, a disk with a mountable filesystem induces a mount operation over /run/media/... and so on. The casual or inexperienced user does not need to know the name "rhythmbox" or understand the mount command (and have the necessary privilege to execute it). This automatic activity can make different environments similar, and therefore easier for users. For example, KDE might launch amarok instead of rhythmbox (used by GNOME) for a music CD. From the user perspective, load a CD and the application to play it is automatically started; doesn't matter whether he uses GNOME, KDE, mate, cinnamon, whatever. For many users, this may be the most convenient behavior. For you and me, not. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
