Old MacOS users is used to unmount removable media by dragging it to the Trash.
When they try that in Gnome (tested in Fedora 8), they get an error message saying something like:


"You can't move volume X to the trash. If you would like to unmount it, use the right mouse menu button and select 'unmount volume'"

Wouldn't it be much better if he got a dialog saying "You can't move this volume to trash. Would you like to eject it?" and then have two buttons "Eject"
and "Cancel".

This would be much more forgiving, as the user could continue and get what he most likely wanted to be done, done just by clicking on a button. Instead of clicking on a button, finding the icon again and pulling down the right menu button and finally select "Eject" or "Unmount" or whatever they are called in his language.

If we know enough to present an error message, telling the user what he can't do and how to do it, we should be able to help him do it more directly.



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