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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Intuitive? Hah! (was Re: 2 button mouse)
Message-ID: <1769@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 07:10:50 GMT
References: <4129@hoptoad.uucp> <283@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu> <1710@ssc-vax.UUCP> <116@scolex>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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Keywords: window human computer interface

In article <116@scolex>, arthure@sco.COM (Arthur Evans) writes:
# The way it works just doesn't make sense to me.  Why is it
# intuitive that moving an icon onto one icon (a disk or
# folder icon) *copies* a file, but moving it onto a garbage
# can icon *deletes* it?   Intuition is in the mind of the

Oh wait! 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.