Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fcstools.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!ikonas!fcstools!paul From: paul@fcstools.UUCP (Paul Perkins) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Re: A Finder Suggestion Message-ID: <109@fcstools.UUCP> Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 08:46:42 EDT Article-I.D.: fcstools.109 Posted: Sat Aug 17 08:46:42 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 21:46:45 EDT References: <26700025@inmet.UUCP> Organization: Foundation Computer Systems INC., Cary, NC Lines: 17 > "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. If the user is in a mood to be scared, anything the machine does is likely to scare him/her the first time it happens. Does that mean the computer should never do anything? Of course not. This reminds me of all those keyboards (Mac included) which lack an "escape" key, supposedly because it would somehow "scare" non-computer people. -- Paul Perkins (somewhere in NetLand) "They're coming in the morning with a truck to take me home."