Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.system:5990 comp.sys.mac.misc:12386 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!paperboy!yee From: yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Mixed metaphors in System 7.0 (Suitcases) Message-ID: Date: 22 May 91 16:19:11 GMT Sender: news@OSF.ORG Distribution: comp Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 34 I was told by a person at Apple that Suitcases in System 7.0 are to be thought of as containers (i.e. like folder) in the Finder. If this is true then I think that there is, at least, a small defect in the metaphor here. Read on... I think it's weird that if you drag a Suitcase into the System File that the Suitcase disappears. If in System 7.0 Suitcases should behave similar to a folder, when I drag a folder into the desktop, I expect the folder to placed on the desktop, and NOT for the folder to 'spill its guts' on to the desktop (i.e. the folder disappears and the contents are not in the 'container' anymore). I know that this is a nit, but Suitcases open up into what looks like a Finder window, except it has this strange behavior when dragged into the System File. Another thing that you CANNOT do with items in a Suitcase (e.g. DA's and Fonts) is make aliases of them. One more inconsistency. If Suitcase windows behave differently than other Finder windows (i.e. folders), then it should look different. Otherwise make them behave the same. Remember, similar controls (or containers) should behave similarly. Be "user friendly", =Mike -- == Michael K. Yee -+- OSF/Motif Team == Open Software Foundation - 11 Cambridge Center - Cambridge, MA 02142 == "Live simply, so that others may simply live."