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Apple wrote *THE* book on computer interfaces, back in the 1980s (when real men didn't eat quiches). With OSX, they tore it up. Fitts law says that things in the corner of a screen are easier to hit with a mouse, as you can "overshoot" them. That's why since System 1.0 Apple have had a trash icon in the bottom right corner of the Finder.
Fast forward a few years. With OSX, Apple moved the trash into the dock. They moved the dock into the middle of the screen. And the trash is on the far right. Except that the dock moves around the screen depending on how many things you have in it. So one day you might have your trash icon in the center of your screen. And the next it will have moved an inch to the right. That's consistent. Who moved my *&^$% trash!?
-- AppleScript droplet to reproduce a Trash icon for the desktop, like OS 9 -- It can trash files on any attached disks -- You can also drag disks to it to unmount them -- johnsmith@metawire.org -- Only tested on 10.3 & 10.4 -- Bugs : aliases can't be trashed unless they're in folders? -- Not tested on non-english systems on run tell application "Finder" if Finder window "Trash" exists then open window "Trash" else make new Finder window to trash end if end tell end run on open these_items repeat with i from 1 to the count of these_items set this_item to (item i of these_items) as alias set this_info to info for this_item tell application "Finder" try eject this_item delete this_item end try end tell end repeat end open
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