Do you use Launchpad?

[roadbloc]

If you remember the name of the app, yes.

If you're forgetting the names of Apps and have to read through a whole list of them (ie Stacks, Launchpad or Application Folder) to be reminded of it, I suggest you quit using a computer all together.

 

[tkermit]

If you're forgetting the names of Apps and have to read through a whole list of them (ie Stacks, Launchpad or Application Folder) to be reminded of it, I suggest you quit using a computer all together.

Huh,...why? There are certain apps I remember foremost by their icon not by their name, especially infrequently used ones. For example, the icons for XLD or Minco sure make it easy to identify the app.

 

[ozaz]

I've just started using Launchpad after disregarding it since Lion's launch. I think the virtual folders have good potential. I'm far less likely to forget I've got a small, obscurely-named app if I can categorize it in a folder.

However I'd want to be able to select multiple apps when dragging to a folder and order apps alphabetically.

 

[pchipchip]

I tried to start using it more often, but I got an app from the app store that I can just search my computer and the internet with it (called Alfred) kind of like Spotlight.

 

[mrsir2009]

Huh,...why? There are certain apps I remember foremost by their icon not by their name, especially infrequently used ones. For example, the icons for XLD or Minco sure make it easy to identify the app.
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Plus sometimes you don't know exactly what your looking for. For example, if your looking for a game to play, you can go on lauchpad and see your choices.

 

[JDrive]

I use spotlight to launch applications that are not in my dock. I have never not known the name of the application I am trying to launch, but I could see how launchpad would be useful in those situations. It's also much friendlier/quicker than browsing through the Applications folder in finder.

 

[reputationZed]

Huh,...why? There are certain apps I remember foremost by their icon not by their name, especially infrequently used ones. For example, the icons for XLD or Minco sure make it easy to identify the app.
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Using LP to find infrequently used programs is probably the best argument I've heard for finding some redeeming value in the program. My problem with the argument is that if I'm only using LP to launch infrequently used programs am I even going to think of LP when the need arises or am I just going to open he apps folder in Finder and hunt around. LP may be a more efficient way to find seldom used apps but I think I far more likely just to hunt around in finder.

 

[reputationZed]

I use spotlight to launch applications that are not in my dock. I have never not known the name of the application I am trying to launch, but I could see how launchpad would be useful in those situations. It's also much friendlier/quicker than browsing through the Applications folder in finder.

I also launch most of my programs by name though I use LaunchBar rather than spotlight. The only programs in my doc are active programs, nothing has permanent residence on the lefthand side of my doc. I'll agree that LaunchPad may be somewhat friendlier/quicker than browsing through the Applications folder in finder, but think 'much friendlier/quicker' is a stretch. I've been browsing through the Finder since Tiger. I don't find LaunchPad offers enough in the friendlier/quicker department to justify learning a new behavior. I'd had some hope for LaunchBar before Lion was released, particularly on small screens like the MBA, but I haven't found a case yet where it offered enough of an improvement to justify learning a new way of doing thinks. I am finding more value in Mission Control, which ironically I initially didn't think I'd use that much.

 

[KingJosh]

I have it in my dock for wanting to use it but I never do I always just command space bar and type in what I want with spotlight lol.

 

[The Economist]

yes.


I like a minimal dock

Same here. I removed the applications folder from my dock and kept using Spotlight plus Launchpad.

 

[Bear]

Either the application I want to use is in the dock, of in the Applications & Utilities folder. Launchpad is a waste of resources as it currently works.