Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu!dudek From: dudek@ai.toronto.edu (Gregory Dudek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: What's that thing in the top right corner?? Message-ID: <89Aug30.140535edt.10859@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> Date: 30 Aug 89 18:06:08 GMT References: <15181@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <34418@apple.Apple.COM> Distribution: comp.sys.mac Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Lines: 12 A natural tendency when you see "strange" things like the easy access icons on the screen is to try and click on them. One could imagine an interface where the first time (per startup) that you click on the easy access icon, you get a little informational alert explaining what's going on. The only trouble is that due to tight screen real estate, that region is used by other things (like multifinder menus, One Cue, clocks, etc.) that also respond to mouse clicks. If easy access really had its own spot, this might be practical. Just be sure to provide a way of turning these messages off once you've seen them the first time. Greg Dudek.