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In article <8705190042.AA14664@cogsci.berkeley.edu> boring!jack@cogsci.berkeley.edu (Jack Jansen) writes:
>
>If you view every icon as an object that can be activated, there
>are only two primitives that you need to do almost everything:
>
>- Activating an object (double clicking). 
>
>- Feeding an object (dragging one or more other objects onto it).

Case 1: there is only feeding - you just drag the double-click onto it!

Case 2: you never know EVERYTHING you'll ever want to do with files(objects).
	The number of operations can then get VERY big - how many
	folk round here would like a GREP facility on the Mac - or
	the ability to print an object without opening the damn thing
	and hanging around for needless user interface start-up operations?
	The main flaw in the Mac is the lack of good generic
	operations on objects which test for properties.

NB: reliance on gestures for expressing all actions is not a very good
    idea. Why the hell do you think we developed spoken and written
    language? Note the major inconsistencies in the meaning of
    dragging on the Macintosh.
	
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