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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..."