I do, I keep very little in my dock, finder,diskutil,mail,chrome,safari,sysprefs, activity monitor. the rest, five finger pinch and select what I want, much easier than opening finder>applications. I even put items into like groups on launchpad, ie all office apps are in the office box, multimedia will have itunes,quicktime
Fair enough. If it works for you, then it works for you. I don't believe that doing a 5 finger gymnastic gesture and then moving the mouse pointer to the required application and clicking on it (never mind the groups kerfuffle) could ever be faster than hitting cmd+space, typing the first two or three letters of the desired app and hitting enter.
Then again, I still vividly remember the
good, old days when I thought that PC Shell and Xtree were the bomb in comparison to the command prompt and doing everything with a couple of keyboard strokes was the norm.
Back on topic after that little nostalgia trip, I still struggle to see the point of Launchpad, even with your explanation. You could arrange all of your applications in groups in Finder by making folders. Then you can just drag the entire Applications folder to the right side of the dock (or the bottom, if your using the dock on the side), right click on the folder in the dock and then choose "Display as folder" and "View contents as grid". Then you have the exact same functionality that is easily accessible. That way you can get into your applications without going through Finder->Applications.
I am fairly sure that having the applications folder on the right side of the dock was standard in Snow Leopard (somebody correct me, if I am wrong) and I think that Launchpad was a pointless addition to solve a problem that wasn't there in the first place. I was actually genuinely surprised when I did a clean install of Lion, or Mountain Lion (can't remember now) and noticed that the Applications folder wasn't in the dock by default.
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I really have very little use for it. Its almost a relic of the past. I open my apps. Put them on different desktops, swipe four fingers left/right between them. I have 7 desktops and 2 fullscreen. Close macbook lid. Open. Everything is as I left it.
I use cmd + arrow left or right to move between desktops. Much quicker
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I have just noticed that a lot of the keyboard functionality in mission control does not work anymore in Yosemite. You can't get focus on a window using just the keyboard, unless I am doing something wrong. Bugger.
Damn, I feel like a relic in this thread.
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I don't understand why people don't just hide their dock. Its more efficient to put it away so you can maximise vertical and horizontal space for your app windows 😀
"Dock on the right and dock hides automatically" crew checking in.
