Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site inmet.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!bbnccv!inmet!bhyde From: bhyde@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Re: A Finder Suggestion Message-ID: <26700025@inmet.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 12:46:00 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.26700025 Posted: Tue Aug 13 12:46:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 04:48:31 EDT References: <787@mcvax.UUCP> Lines: 25 Nf-ID: #R:mcvax:-78700:inmet:26700025:000:1426 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