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Article #26521Re: Intuitive? Hah! (was Re: 2 button mouse)
From: Charles L Ditzel
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1988 07:10
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1988 07:10
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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.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!nrl-cmf!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!benoni 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 Lines: 9 Keywords: window human computer interface