It’s a keyboard jockey or not thing. With the current launchpad the hand never leaves the trackpad. Gesture - tap done. It’s muscle memory. It’s instantaneous after all these years. Now it’s gonna take a new workflow and naturally some of us aren’t thrilled. Some will adapt and others don’t want to lose what they have. Different (keyboard) strokes for different folks.
End of the day we adapt.
you're not hearing me; the SAME trackpad gesture opens spotlight, and... there is is, applications.It’s a keyboard jockey or not thing. With the current launchpad the hand never leaves the trackpad. Gesture - tap done. It’s muscle memory. It’s instantaneous after all these years. Now it’s gonna take a new workflow and naturally some of us aren’t thrilled. Some will adapt and others don’t want to lose what they have. Different (keyboard) strokes for different folks.
Yeah, the issue here is that you can't set how the applications are arranged in this new view. Part of the muscle memory is knowing "where to click" in LaunchPad for your app, because you can lay out the apps on the grid however you like and macOS will present it consistently.
I hear you perfectly. Gesture + tap vs Gesture + type are not the same. It’s once it’s there that differs that’s all. As said many times, all will adapt but we are not robots that have to like the new way more than the old way. A simple solution is to allow a Launchpad like arrangement of applications once the Spotlight Applications section is open. Essentially a mini Launchpad in Spotlight, and thus both you and I and a host of others are rocking. Voicing these ideas is important. In fact, a more compact Launchpad that doesn’t require a full desktop per page is a great opportunity for Apple to make, for those that like that arrangement, even if the tap targets are smaller. Cognitive and muscle memory will kick in.
how many changes have you adapted to since you started using a mac? you'll adapt to this one... or find a workaround.
Brother I totally agree with you. It’s not to incite argument or bickering. So many aspects of macOS have and will change and not always for the better. I’m looking at you Music vs old iTunes. On the flip side, Continuity continues to expand beautifully with each successive year. And in your case and mine, Logic Pro is the bread and butter for us. Common grounds, and not so common grounds. Makes it all fun as long as we stay jovial about it. IMHO, modern Apple feels like there are opposing forces within each division, where you get something awesome offset with something poorly thought out or executed, and all of it wrapped up in a ball of hyper cringe marketing speak. So here we all are to poke and prod at it all.
ha, also running logic (& fcp) on an m2 air, and loving the whole thing. tahoe's good so far; feels faster than sequoia, pretty stable for an early beta. and all my logic plugins work.
you can do that in the dock. or create folders of aliases on the desktop; or a folder on the desktop with folders with aliases in groups.
that puzzles me, so am genuinely asking: do people need "250 apps"? there are only 260 days in a year (if you take off weekends ☺️). anyway, seems like... a lot of apps
thankfully, there are numerous ways to organize apps (like folders in the dock, or aliases in folders on the desktop. etc 👍
apple has already killed launchpad, so not sure how long workarounds will last (altho, for this who want it, hope it does in fact last). you can certainly move to another app, or find other ways of doing what you need. good to have options...
This, however, provided that you IMMEDIATELY and ALWAYS, remember the name of the app you want to open (ok not word or excel), maybe among many. I find truly much more reliable to recall the location the app is or its icon... names not always are so direct and remembered ...
