Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!uokmax!d.cs.okstate.edu!norman From: norman@d.cs.okstate.edu (Norman Graham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Intuitive... Message-ID: <1990Sep22.024739.7435@d.cs.okstate.edu> Date: 22 Sep 90 02:47:39 GMT References: <922@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM> Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc Organization: Oklahoma State University Lines: 28 Come on people; remove this discussion from c.s.m.apps. Followups to c.s.m.misc From article <922@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM>, by paul@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM (Paul Siu): > [...] The least intutive > element is the ejection of diskette by throwing it in the trash. It may not be intuitable, but it is convenient. Those of us who used the Mac in its early months had to perform the same operation by (1) using the 'Eject' menu command to place the volume off-line (i.e. ejected) and then (2) dragging the dimmed floppy-disk icon to the trash to unmount the volume (i.e. tell the Mac to forget about the floppy). By allowing the user to drag on-line, mounted volumes to the trash, Apple converted a two-step process to a one-step process. Even before this feature was added to the Finder, I found myself absentmindedly trying to use it. Of course instead of ejecting the disk I got an alert box telling me I couldn't do that. Gee, I guess that maybe it is an intuitable feature, but only for people who learned to to things the old way first. Cheers, Norm -- Norman Graham {cbosgd,rutgers}!okstate!norman The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of the state of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, OSU's Department of Computer Science, or of the writer himself.