🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <DDH2nv.2y3@news.cis.umn.edu>, Jeff Halverson
<halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu> wrote:

> 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!"

> Is it just me, or did they screw up the concept of the trash can?  Hehe :-/

In the early 1980s, when Apple engineers were designing the Mac, they made
a *tradeoff*.  Their choices:  either waste some of the precious real
estate of a 9" screen with another icon, or overload the trash can.  They
chose the latter.

Since then, they have decided that it is better to remain consistent with
what current Mac owners are used to than to change it around and "correct"
the problem.  I for one sure wouldn't want to answer a new Mac user's
question of "How do I eject the floppy" with "Well, it depends on what
version of the system you have...".  In practical terms, it's a fairly
minor problem.
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