Hey Thilo > * I can imagine that in some cultures a trash is either not very well > known or more negativley associated.
The British localisation calls trash the 'Wastebasket'. It's quaint. Similar things can be/are done for other cultures, as the default trash icons for most themes are pretty stylised (no flies buzzing around the icon or bits of rotten stuff hanging out). If the text translates to something like 'Disposed Files Container', it's unlikely that most users in a culture greatly offended by rubbish will make the connection, and will just think of it as a place where deleted things go. > I think one could have > A) a tool for ejecting/unmounting. I only ever need to unmount media occasionally, so I don't mind spending a couple of extra seconds opening 'Computer', right-clicking, and selecting 'Unmount'. Having a permanently visible unmount icon would, in my case, be unnecessary, as the time saving from it would be negligible. I can see where you are coming from in the case of novice users though, who might not know to unmount media. But it might be just as well to tell the user the first time they mount something that it must be unmounted through the right-click menu when they have finished using it. > This tool also could manage resources in the > network that are available via Rendezvous This would be pretty cool. I haven't used KDE for a long while, but they used to have something called the LISA daemon (IIRC), which listed all of the services on the local subnet in Konqueror. Something similar, and ZeroConf-based, would be a nice addition in the 'Network' folder perhaps. > * Why not use Themes as something that is adopted to a local culture? Interface consistency. It's bad enough having language barriers, but when you start rearranging things based on locale, people from low-user-count locales might get stuck and have no-one to help them because their desktop layout is different from anyone else's. Thanks -- Phil Bull philbull.tk _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
