I feel the same way.
While I don't use it, the problem is the intent behind it that reveals Apples desire to dumb down OS X. Perhaps Apples after the couch potato set.
Yeah, let's make it as mind numbing as TV.
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Do you use Launchpad?
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I feel the same way.
While I don't use it, the problem is the intent behind it that reveals Apples desire to dumb down OS X. Perhaps Apples after the couch potato set.
Yeah, let's make it as mind numbing as TV.
FWW Launchpad is completely pointless for me. I don't think I ever would have seen the point either. Launchpad is a mess of applications and if you want to create a folder (which I tried when I first installed Lion), good luck to you!
Mission Control: I agree with the gripes. I don't like it. Apple ruined a perfectly good function IMO.
Mission Control: I agree with the gripes. I don't like it. Apple ruined a perfectly good function IMO.
It's a lot easier for me to hit the launchpad button and bring up all my apps than to use spotlight or any other method. That's why/when I use it.
I've grown to like it. I've got three pages, one with my initially installed apple apps, one with my non apple apps and one with development apps.
I find this really helps my workflow. If I'm developing I don't have to look through all of my apps in teh app folder to choose the one i want, I've got them all together easily accessible from any screen.
It's personal choice obviously, but I made a decision to try it and persist with it to see if I could get used to it. I now find it as quick as using spotlight as I know where all of my icons will be on the screen.
I find this really helps my workflow. If I'm developing I don't have to look through all of my apps in teh app folder to choose the one i want, I've got them all together easily accessible from any screen.
It's personal choice obviously, but I made a decision to try it and persist with it to see if I could get used to it. I now find it as quick as using spotlight as I know where all of my icons will be on the screen.
They didn't take anything away by adding Launchpad. All of the necessary and welcome complexity offered by the Finder, Spotlight and 3rd-party apps is still there. Launchpad does nothing more than offer you an additional way to easily and quickly get into your applications. Why not make this as simple as possible? What's wrong with making application launching even more accessible? Should this really be a chore or exercise your brain???
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It couldn't be simpler: drag one icon on top of another, voila, both are in a new folder.
Take it off your dock, disable the hot corner, and you never have to see it again. Is that not good enough?
Agreed I also hate launchpad. When I first saw this at the back to Mac event I was displeased. Then when i downgraded from SL to lion I saw that I could take it off my dock and turn off key bindings. Apple still forced it on me whenever I used the app store the app would fly into launchpad and also launchpad would always show as the top of spotlight when I used any apps beginning with L and no matter how many times I Would change it spotlight would not learn. Apple should keep SL for the apple loyalists and market lion to the idiot newbs
One of the reasons why I switched to Mac. Could you hear them cheering after the first demo. It hurts so much to see them pervert this dream with mission control. Lion took away all of that apple "magic" that made their systems a pleasure to use. I had to go back to snow leopard to get this back. And the sad part is when I am able to afford a new imac I will be forced to use lion and that may force me to go to windows 8. Having the god awful ribbon interface shoved down my throat is the lesser of two evils
I like the idea of having my apps all in one place, as I often don't remember the exact name of an app (Activity Monitor vs. System Monitor vs. Performance Monitor, I never know which one it is
). I also sometimes don't even know what I want so I just like to see what's available, like at the supermarket.
But I hate the 4 finger gesture, it's just impossible to get it right each time.
I also hate that it's so hard to move icons from one place to another and the way you can't rename the apps. Some have very long names. I also hate that uninsallers also appear there, and all other crap from obscure folders that you would never want to see, ever.
I don't like how you can't drag files to apps in Launchpad, to open the file with the given app. You can only do that with the Dock, which makes Launchpad less useful. I'd rather just have everything I use in the dock, and things I rarely use I'll just search for or whatever.
Launchpad is far from useful!
But I hate the 4 finger gesture, it's just impossible to get it right each time.
I also hate that it's so hard to move icons from one place to another and the way you can't rename the apps. Some have very long names. I also hate that uninsallers also appear there, and all other crap from obscure folders that you would never want to see, ever.
I don't like how you can't drag files to apps in Launchpad, to open the file with the given app. You can only do that with the Dock, which makes Launchpad less useful. I'd rather just have everything I use in the dock, and things I rarely use I'll just search for or whatever.
Launchpad is far from useful!
Maybe you have a short list of apps. Getting Chrome, Safari, Rockmelt, Opera, Firefox etc. together in a folder took about 30 mins. It wasn't like Chrome actually wanted to move on to the next page. I can't even remember how I did it now!
Why do you NEED to disable it? You can just not use it without having to disable it. Jesus...
For a while I tried forcing myself to use Launchpad by disabling application search in spotlight... it works ok but getting in an out of launchpad is much more cumbersome than a quick spotlight search. Also, folders in Launchpad are just too slow to work with, the "folders" work ok on iOS but on a mac the interface doesn't quite feel right. I also removed all dock items and keep the dock only for running applications.
I have since turned spotlight back on but I now find myself using a mix of both spotlight and Launchpad. I still keep the dock only for running applications.
I have since turned spotlight back on but I now find myself using a mix of both spotlight and Launchpad. I still keep the dock only for running applications.
Personally I very rarely use it. Faster to add items to the dock or to spotlight search. However I think it does have SOME potential. Maybe if you could add any file,folder or shortcut to it? For quicker access to a certain webpage? Or preferences pane perhaps? Just my opinion.
Nope, don't use it.
Now I am curious when the top bar goes away, its going to happen one day. Now if they could find a way to do that 7 search function (because I always know what app I want - I just don't want to find it) without hosing the deskop up I would love it.
As in, imagine being able to type anywhere on the desktop and have it search your system... just click in an open area ...
Now I am curious when the top bar goes away, its going to happen one day. Now if they could find a way to do that 7 search function (because I always know what app I want - I just don't want to find it) without hosing the deskop up I would love it.
As in, imagine being able to type anywhere on the desktop and have it search your system... just click in an open area ...