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From: bhyde@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: A Finder Suggestion
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 12:46:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 13 12:46:00 1985
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Nf-From: inmet!bhyde    Aug 13 12:46:00 1985


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.
  I suspect that religous wars were fought over the adding of
a shut-down command to the finder.  Adding another command to 
the finder substantailly increases it's apparent complexity.
  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.
  Before getting all fired up about how some command ought to be
part of the finder think about how many commands need to be part
of the finder.  The finder is a shell, it should be capable to all
the things any modern high quality shell can do; scripts, params,
all the operations in the common (useful) desk acc.,  etc. etc.
  The present finder's principal design goal seems to have been
novice user accessablity.  That's a wonderful first pass goal.
Adding in the power of a unix shell is going to be an amazingly
hard thing to do.  Putting in this and that (like a set startup
disk command and the mini-finder) into the finder isn't the route
and will only assure a mess results.
                     ben hyde, cambridge