[plug] history and "trash can"

[Bret Busby]

On Fri, 07 Sep 2001, Mike Holland wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Colin Muller wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 09:54:03AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > > Why not just use simple english; why not just use the words "deleted
> >
> > I'll second that.
> 
> Gents! Have we forgotten what this is all about?
>  Two words: Destop metaphor.
> 
> Long ago a young Steve Jobs visited Xerox PARC and saw their ideas for
> easy to use computers. The screen is a destop. Icons represent
> manila folders, filing cabinets, and that little waste basket under your
> desk.
>   But the "waste basket" icon is really only used for drag-n-drop, any how
> many people really delete their files that way? It is redundant.
> In fact, now that people are more familiar with the Windoze desktop than
> with old-fashioed office equipment, the whole idea of office metaphors has
> outlived its usefulness.
> 
> The macOS X people see it that way:
> http://www.techreview.com/magazine/nov00/montfort.asp
> 
>  Leave the desktop metaphor behind, I say.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mike Holland  <myk at golden.wattle.id.au>
> 			--==--

Oh, and, one thing that I missed; as well as instead using "delete file", for
wastage receptacle, similarly, I suggest another simple, clear,
concise and unambiguous and meaningful phrase; using "clear deleted files",
instead of "empty wastage receptacle". The latter sounds, as does "empty
trash can", like "tip out the spittoon", or, "defenestrate the chamber pot
contents"....

But, the use of such terminology (the simple, clear, unambiguous and
meaningful terminology) would be logical, and, since when has software been
designed with logic in mind? Aren't software developers the people responsible
for, and, the people who use, those grass cookie things, that float around in
the ether of the internet?  

:p)

Bret Busby
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