ems@amdahl.UUCP (ems) (12/27/85)
There was a great furor at one time over dragging disk
icons to trash causing an eject and window erasure. The
complaint was that this was non-intuitive. That it
would be seen as meaning 'erase this disk' by the average
Macuser. Pondering this, I find that I agree. There is
a subconsious feeling of dred at doing this. Perhaps it
should be caused to mean 'erase this disk'.
But then, how to eject and clear windows? Put a 'go away'
box on the disk icons. The world remains intuitive and
coherent.
Is it too late? Is there too much momentum now for the
trash to eject metaphore? Tune in next season ...
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E. Michael Smith ...!{hplabs,ihnp4,amd,nsc}!amdahl!ems
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