🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <kevinbDDp6vK.I1K@netcom.com>, kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com (Kevin
Brown) wrote:

> Neither way is ideal.  The ideal way is to have an alternate disk icon
> (that appears as a ghost image) always on the desktop whenever a disk
> is present in the drive.  You drag the files you want to copy from
> whatever source to the alternate disk.  If the source was a hard drive
> or a second disk, the copy would proceed as if the destination were
> the primary disk icon.  If the source was the primary disk, the system
> would perform the single-floppy copy and would automatically eject the
> disks for you (and prompt you to insert the other disk) as it needed
> to.
> 

That was probably too much UI indirection. Mac UI design has always
stressed direct manipulation where possible. You don't have 2 disks, why 2
icons?

I think they were anticipationg the dual floppy configuration becoming
standard anyways. Too bad they didn't think of the "Put Away" command
early on.