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Oh GNOME, hiding "Power off" option under additional submenu, that user wouldn't accidentally click it, and then putting "Format" right next to "Safely remove d

• tveyben 2y ago
  Same kind of thing exists on Windows - for eg USB mass storage devices, ‘Eject’ and ‘Format’ are listes next to each other in the menu… One is harmless - the other potentially destructive
  • ivanjermakov 2y ago
    My favorite UX is when on Windows you mount a drive of unknown partition type (e.g. ext4) there is a popup suggesting to format it with "confirm" selected by default.
    • eviks 2y ago
      That's very dumb indeed, and no way to disable properly, I think (had to use a script that watches for the window with this same prompt texts and autoclose it to avoid catastrophic results)
      • account42 2y ago
        Dumb or malicious? Not the first time Microsoft happens to "accidentally" break foreign systems.
• rollcat 2y ago
  Meanwhile macOS: hold "opt" to shutdown/restart without confirmation: 2 clicks, instant action; vs GNOME's 4 clicks and janky animations. Meanwhile both: cramming so many controls into title bars there's nowhere left to click to move the window. I recently spent a week with OS X 10.5 on a G4, I think it was peak desktop.
  • tristan957 2y ago
    You can click and drag anywhere on the header bar. Did you not test this before making your comment? It seems like a lot of people are misinformed.
    • rollcat 2y ago
      Well not on Mac, and I don't have anything with GNOME at hand. But that's besides the point: 1. it's not obvious (no other random part of the window can be used in the same way), 2. it's too many things in too little space (cognitive load, applies to Mac as well), 3. you have to be mindful about accidentally clicking instead of dragging (most non-Apple trackpads are simply bad), 4. it's ambiguous what's gonna happen for any UI element that could respond to drags (address bar, seekbar, etc). I have similar problems telling which parts of the window can be used to drag them around on a Mac. There's a secret feature that allows you to hold Cmd+Ctrl to drag the window by clicking (almost) anywhere, but every release of macOS breaks it for yet another app. defaults write -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture -bool true
• prmoustache 2y ago
  Unfair. Format is followed by ... which implies it opens a dialog. That dialog starts a 2 steps process, the last one being a warning in red telling you it will destroy every data permanently. There is no way you can accidentally format a device. Also, people who want a quick way to poweroff can change the behavior of the power button to ... poweroff instead of suspend.
  • account42 2y ago
    Users are generally used to closing dialogs without fully reading them, especially dialogs they did not expect because they wanted to eject the drive because they want to leave now and are already running late.
    • prmoustache 2y ago
      I don't think anyone would hit next then that red format button instead of the cancel button by mistake and if she does that person really deserve her data to be destroyed.