[openbeos] Re: sync daemon?
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:29:33 +0100 CET
> On 1/18/07, Waldemar Kornewald <wkornewald@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > When you have an active app it requires even more user interaction
> > to
> > get to the desktop and unmount the volume in BeOS.
>
> Just pull the thing ;)
> Then the dialog will inform you if there are pending writes.
> That is, if someone ends up implementing the idea I proposed...
> But as things stand today, you are correct. I'm spoiled by Exposé; it
> has a shortcut to put every window away and quickly show the desktop.
No need for a sparse layer anyway.
Just notice when a transfer failed and check the media status (probably
already done). Then queue it somewhere and pop up a dialog asking to
put the thing back. On 'Ok' transfers would be retried.
>
> > I thought of directly listing all volumes in the Deskbar (instead
> > of
> > the desktop). There even was some mockup with this idea, but I
> > can't
> > find it, anymore.
You can put a symlink to / in the Be Menu btw.
But you can't unmount easily from there.
>
> Could be... But I'm short on ideas on how not to make this feel like
> clutter. I'm a little bauhausian regarding having something
> constantly
> visible on screen when I was not the one to specifically put it
> there.
> And a button or trigger is yet another level of indirection, making
> it
> big is just annoying, and making it small and barely noticeable makes
> it hard to select.
I used to have a Win-E spicykeys shortcut to eject /dev/disk/scsi/*/*/*
/raw
(eject seems to attempt to unmount first IIRC)
Why not pop up a listview on Win-E you can scroll/click/typeahead-and-
type-enter ?
Probably handier than a menu. (One thing I don't like in BeAPI is the
dichotomy of BMenuItem vs BListItem...)
> As inelegant as it seems, a "show desktop" command solves this better
Btw, you don't need to see the desktop to unmount, only to be able to
select the disk.
Either click on the backdrop or use FFM and type the start of the
volume name then ALT-U. I use that a lot.
> I guess an image overlay indicating a busy drive wouldn't hurt,
> either. Like the one we currently have indicating used/free space.
It'll become a crowded desktop :)
François.
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