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From: custead@sask.UUCP (Der cuss)
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Subject: A Finder Suggestion
Message-ID: <251@sask.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 18:07:12 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 16 18:07:12 1985
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Organization: University of Saskatchewan, CANADA
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Finder 4.1 has some excellent improvements over 1.1g.
The shutdown command is one example.  Another is that
dragging a disk icon to the trash ejects the disk and
memory of it.

Unfortunately dragging the system disk to the trash
produces the message:
"Can't throw away the image of the startup disk."

I suggest that dragging the system disk to the trash
should cause a shutdown and reset.
This is an obvious extension to what happens when other
disks are dragged to the trash, and is the only reasonable
interpretation for dragging the system disk to the trash.
It also gives a meaning to a currently undefined operation, and
avoids a menu selection operation.

The only objection to this is that it would cause other
disks to be ejected even though they were not explicitly
selected.  I can live with this.

					L. R. Custead
					Univ of Sask
					ihnp4!sask!custead