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From: jww@sdcsvax.UUCP (Joel West)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Re: A Finder Suggestion
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Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 11:36:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 16 11:36:11 1985
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> Lets have a little sympathy for the unbelievable complexity of
> designing a finder that can be used by people that know nothing
> of computers.  With less than twenty minutes the of casual training
> that a computer store salesman provides most people have a sufficent
> fluency.
Given the recent computer salesmen I've seen, this is almost a necessity.
How many really know what they're talking about?  20%? 10%?

>   Having a disk eject when it is draged into the trash is a bad
> idea.  It scares the user if disks can go into the trash at all,
> having the machine spit the disk out only makes him think that his
> worse fear is true, i.e. it erased the disk.
This is the one thing I really wanted on the old 1.1 finder, is what's
the easy way to not only eject but forget a disk, quickly.  if you
use the machine a lot you'll really need it.  On the other hand,
it is a 2nd-level abstraction.


	Joel West	CACI, Inc. - Federal (c/o UC San Diego)
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