[64studio-devel] General usability

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Thu Apr 19 17:10:53 UTC 2007


On 4/19/07, Daniel James <daniel at 64studio.com> wrote:
> I have had the chance to try recent OS X releases, and to my surprise, I
> didn't find the interface all that easy to use. Objects kept sliding
> around, and off the edge of the desktop - most disconcerting. I actually
> think System 7/8/9 was more intuitive, although it did have some
> dumb-ass features. Like: dragging a floppy into the wastebin ejected it,
> instead of deleting the files on it. I don't think we'd expect anyone to
> believe that ;-)

I'm pretty sure OSX still does that.  But now there's an "eject" key
on the keyboard.  Which inexplicably will cause a click and a whirr
even if there's no disk in the drive...

Lee



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