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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Keywords: Drag-and-drop, application start, mac's eject icon
Message-ID: <71@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 91 09:46:28 GMT
References: <1991Jun15.180607.10502@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Jun16.214309.18102@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun17.123525.1485@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Jun18.165401.26383@ifi.unizh.ch>
Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Organization: Ryptyde Timesharing (ryptyde.cts.com)
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Responding to the following:

>You're mixing up an interface tool with the inappropriate use of a metaphor.
>A properly implemented "drag and drop" interface here would have an "eject"
>icon that you dropped the disk onto. Dropping it in the trash would instead
>format the disk.

I can imagine Apple changing that after all these years. Users save their
important documents onto floppy and drag it to the trash can only to get
a dialog box saying "Reformatting Diskette..."