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- From: tom@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Tom Aurand)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Idea for a unique delete?(for lack of a better description)
- Message-ID: <Jul29.213331.58540@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 21:33:31 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.152129.12105@njitgw.njit.edu> <Bs2A49.Iwv@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Jul28.021155.2322@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Reply-To: tom@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Tom Aurand)
- Organization: Colorado State U. Center for Computer Assisted Engineering.
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- In article <1992Jul29.152129.12105@njitgw.njit.edu>,
- dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul28.021155.2322@midway.uchicago.edu>
- sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >
- > >Terrific idea. Another possibility: have an icon of a shark (Jaws)
- > >gobbling things on the screen.
- >
- > Well, if you want a silly interface, I've had this idea for the Mac
- > for years:
- >
- > As more icons get added to the trash, the can swells bigger and bigger
- > (right now, it swells to a fixed size if there's anything in it, and
- > looks normal only with nothing in it). When you pick "Empty Trash", a
- > truck drives up and dumps the icons out of the can into the truck (you
- > see the icons being dumped from can into truck). The files are
- > removed when the truck drives off the screen. At any time, you could
- > click on the truck (flag it down?) an extract something from it before
- > it gets away.
- >
- Then, why not simply bring in a pickup truck icon, back it up to the back
- of the trash hauller have a tiny little robot icon unload the icon to be
- saved from the trash hauller onto the back of the pickup, then drive around
- the desktop until it decides on a good location, then an even smaller robot
- icon lower the icon on the tommy lift tailgate to the desk top then drive
- itself off the desktop?
-