🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <411vnn$4nj@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
 oesterle@aol.com (Oesterle) writes:
> In message <DDH2nv.2y3@news.cis.umn.edu>, 
> Jeff Halverson <halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > My favorite quirk in Apples concepts of the GUI is the trashcan!  
> > Have you ever tried to explain that concept to a beginner?  "Okay, 
> > If you want to throw away a file, pick it up, and drop it into the
> trash..."  
> > Simple, enough isn't it?  Then it comes time to show them how to 
> > eject the disk.  "Okay, pick up the disk and drop it in the trash..."   
> > "NO!  I JUST SPENT HOURS ON THAT DOCUMENT SAVED TO THE DISK!"
> [snip]
> 
> This design flaw was, of course, fixed in System 7.
> 
> Select the disk.
> Choose "Put Away" on the File menu.
> The disk dismounts (and ejects) and the user is happy.

Why should I have to look in the _File_ menu to perform
an operation on a disk?

Given a novice user trying to eject a disk, which option
are they most likely to choose, the one named "Eject" or
the one named "Put Away"?


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