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From: merchant@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Peter Merchant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Intuitive? Hah! (was Re: 2 button mouse)
Message-ID: <8474@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 29 Mar 88 13:38:38 GMT
References: <4129@hoptoad.uucp> <283@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu> <1710@ssc-vax.UUCP> <1769@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY
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Keywords: window human computer interface

In article <1769@ssc-vax.UUCP>, Charles L. Ditzel writes:
> It's gets even more interesting when you decide to
> eject a disk by moving the *disk icon* to the *trash icon*!
> This is *completely* COUNTER-INTUITIVE ... after all you just
> deleted a file by dragging it to the trash.

Moving the disk to the trashcan is a shortcut, much like a double-click, and
is not intended to be the "proper" way to do things.  One can come up with all
sorts of non-intuitive shortcuts in both The Finder and various applications.
I think it's preferable for all shortcuts to make some form of sense.  For
example, throwing the disk in the trash is a shortcut for ejecting the disk
and then throwing it's hollow icon in the trash.

I agree that it took me quite some time to figure out how in the world this
pointing-and-clicking stuff works.  But, then again, I grew up on command-line
interfaces and wasn't used to the concept of dealing with pictures at all,
which made everything very strange.  I kept looking for the menu item that
said "Erase file"...
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"One step forward,                      Peter Merchant (merchant@eleazar.UUCP)
 Two steps back..."