Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Re: A Finder Suggestion Message-ID: <1023@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 18:29:23 EDT Article-I.D.: sphinx.1023 Posted: Tue Aug 20 18:29:23 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 01:50:50 EDT References: <26700025@inmet.UUCP>, <109@fcstools.UUCP> Organization: U. Chicago - Computation Center Lines: 22 From: paul@fcstools.UUCP (Paul Perkins), Message-ID: <109@fcstools.UUCP>: >> "Having the disk eject when you drag it to the trash is a bad idea >> because it scares the user". > >I strongly disagree with this point, and with the idea that one can/should >try to predict by introspection what will "scare" the inexperienced user. I'm not exactly a novice user, and *I* was a little hesitant to put an entire disk in the trash (what if I'd misinterpreted the doc - everything else that goes in the trash eventually disappears *forever*, not just for the duration of the session). Now I do it all the time, and I think it's quite handy, thank you. But it *is* a departure from the typical meaning of trash, and it made me a tad queasy for a while. -- --JB (Beth Christy, U. of Chicago, ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth) "Oh yeah, P.S., I...I feel...feel like...I am in a burning building And I gotta go." (Laurie Anderson)