From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Michaelson To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Cc: okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: [9fans] mouse dragging Message-Id: <20031008122833.7ad4b99c.ggm@apnic.net> In-Reply-To: <18814d09032655e7112ad11263b117be@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp> References: <18814d09032655e7112ad11263b117be@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:28:33 +1000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 66de2ff2-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 11:25:46 +0900 okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote: > I was asked by a very newbie where is "trash can". > Well, we haven't one. I tried to tell her why we don't need it. > However, in my deep mind, I doubted it to myself. > I really don't need it? > > We have no use of mouse dragging. If we can drag a file object > in a directory window to another window, and if it means copying > the object, or if we have choding of left+middle to a file in a directory > window means to delete the object, we have any problem? > > Kenji A trash can removes the name of an object from the apparent view, but retains its contents, and provides an undo. So if your litany of drag/chording options includes that (the above list doesn't) then no, there is no problem. (dragging a copy, then chording delete on the original is two things, not one) Isn't this like arguing why mv is unneeded given V6 cp+rm? -George