Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!jww From: jww@sdcsvax.UUCP (Joel West) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Re: A Finder Suggestion Message-ID: <1044@sdcsvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 11:36:11 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.1044 Posted: Fri Aug 16 11:36:11 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 19:41:59 EDT References: <787@mcvax.UUCP> <26700025@inmet.UUCP> Organization: CACI, Inc - Federal, La Jolla Lines: 21 > 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) {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!jww jww@SDCSVAX.ARPA