W2K fails to properly distinguish between Permanently Delete and Sendto Recycle Bin.

[Guest baobob@my-deja.com]

I just upgraded from Win 98 to Win 2000 SP4, and I continue to be

absolutely sickened at the lack of attention to vital detail in the

UI.

 

In File Explorer, on highlighting a file and pressing Del, it asks

whether you want to send the file to the Recycle Bin. Fine. Perfect.

 

But on pressing Shift-Del, it asks whether you want to DELETE the

file.

 

Everyone KNOWS that Windows has the virtue of saving things for you in

case you accidentally DELETE something. Everyone KNOWS that "delete"

means merely to send to the Recycle Bin.

 

The phrase they're looking for, PERMANENTLY DELETE, is abandoned,

thrown out, not in the picture.

 

Do more recent versions of Windows correctly say PERMANENTLY DELETE?

 

If not, I will continue to upgrade my Windows version oh, about once a

decade.

 

Because that's about the frequency that Microflot seems to ever FIX

its interface.

 

***

[Guest Sid Elbow]

Re: W2K fails to properly distinguish between Permanently Deleteand Send to Recycle Bin.

 

Re: W2K fails to properly distinguish between Permanently Deleteand Send to Recycle Bin.

 

.... and yet, you are obviously perfectly well aware of how it works so

what's the problem? You're "heartily sickened" because the semantics

don't conform to your personal ideal?

 

Frankly, I disagree. To me "Delete" means "Delete" and "Send to Recycle

Bin" means "Send to Recycle Bin". The fact that you press the "Del" key

to effect the latter is simply a matter of convenience in keyboard

shortcut selection ... the keys were named long before windows.

 

 

 

 

baobob@my-deja.com wrote:

> I just upgraded from Win 98 to Win 2000 SP4, and I continue to be

> absolutely sickened at the lack of attention to vital detail in the

> UI.

>

> In File Explorer, on highlighting a file and pressing Del, it asks

> whether you want to send the file to the Recycle Bin. Fine. Perfect.

>

> But on pressing Shift-Del, it asks whether you want to DELETE the

> file.

>

> Everyone KNOWS that Windows has the virtue of saving things for you in

> case you accidentally DELETE something. Everyone KNOWS that "delete"

> means merely to send to the Recycle Bin.

>

> The phrase they're looking for, PERMANENTLY DELETE, is abandoned,

> thrown out, not in the picture.

>

> Do more recent versions of Windows correctly say PERMANENTLY DELETE?

>

> If not, I will continue to upgrade my Windows version oh, about once a

> decade.

>

> Because that's about the frequency that Microflot seems to ever FIX

> its interface.

[Guest baobob@my-deja.com]

Re: W2K fails to properly distinguish between Permanently Delete andSend to Recycle Bin.

 

Re: W2K fails to properly distinguish between Permanently Delete andSend to Recycle Bin.

 

Hmm. I think you have a valid point.

 

But there are simply so many hundreds of points of detail on which

Microsoft has failed to implement what is otherwise good paradigms, in

Windows.

 

Thanks for reply.

 

***

[Guest Bob I]

Re: W2K fails to properly distinguish between Permanently Deleteand Send to Recycle Bin.

 

Re: W2K fails to properly distinguish between Permanently Deleteand Send to Recycle Bin.

 

Let us know when you have completed your "flawless" operating system.

Till then, don't bother posting more drivel.

 

baobob@my-deja.com wrote:

> I just upgraded from Win 98 to Win 2000 SP4, and I continue to be

> absolutely sickened at the lack of attention to vital detail in the

> UI.

>

> In File Explorer, on highlighting a file and pressing Del, it asks

> whether you want to send the file to the Recycle Bin. Fine. Perfect.

>

> But on pressing Shift-Del, it asks whether you want to DELETE the

> file.

>

> Everyone KNOWS that Windows has the virtue of saving things for you in

> case you accidentally DELETE something. Everyone KNOWS that "delete"

> means merely to send to the Recycle Bin.

>

> The phrase they're looking for, PERMANENTLY DELETE, is abandoned,

> thrown out, not in the picture.

>

> Do more recent versions of Windows correctly say PERMANENTLY DELETE?

>

> If not, I will continue to upgrade my Windows version oh, about once a

> decade.

>

> Because that's about the frequency that Microflot seems to ever FIX

> its interface.

>

> ***

[Guest me@tadyatam.invalid]

Re: W2K fails to properly distinguish between Permanently Delete and Send to Recycle Bin.

 

Re: W2K fails to properly distinguish between Permanently Delete and Send to Recycle Bin.

 

baobob@my-deja.com wrote in

news:dd35aa94-4958-464b-b892-b5ff4a8aba2f@c23g2000hsa.googlegr

oups.com:

>

> If not, I will continue to upgrade my Windows version oh,

> about once a decade.

>

 

Consider posting such a BS no more than, oh, once a century.

:-/

 

TIA

 

J

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