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From: cseaman@sequent.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Keywords: Future, Amiga, etc.
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.181522.26401@sequent.com>
Date: 21 Jun 91 18:15:22 GMT
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stevep@wrq.com (Steve Poole) writes:
< rjc@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
< > This is something the application should decid at run time, not the OS.
< >For instance, I can load executables into most Amiga text editors and
< >patch them. I can load IFF files and edit the headers if I want. I would
< >be really fustrated if the OS refused to let me drop ANY file into a 
< >text editor.
< 
< The Finder is NOT the OS.  Obviously, applications do decide at run time
< what they'd like to open.  Drag and drop in the Finder allows the user
< to avoid the step of launching an application only to find that it doesn't
< understand that file type.  If the app will open that file type at all
< then it can be opened via drag and drop.  It's just another timesaver,
< not a fascist device.

This topic epitomizes my main beef with the Mac 'philosophy'.  Any user
with a lick of common sense isn't even going to TRY to 'drag-and-drop' a
file into an application, unless they believe (or at least suspect) that
the application will know what to do with it.  The 'Mac way', however,
credits the user with the intelligence of a rock.  It not only condones
ignorance on the part of the user, it encourages and perpetuates it.

'Drag and drop in the Finder allows the user to avoid the step of
launching an application...'  Pshaw.  'Drag-and-drop' in the Finder
allows the user to remain blissfully free of the ravages of
intelligence.

Chris

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