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munkle said:
Some of my colleagues seem to believe it's the only place to save their work. Occasionally, when I have to do something on their machines it's a nightmare... my work desktop is a severe, barren expanse of flat mid-grey with 4 aliai & no disks...
joey4127 said:
A) The Dock is limited in space and capacity.
B) You can quickly navigate to the Desktop and other important places with a keyboard shortcut (Apple-D for desktop) within Finder and the save/open dialog boxes of other programs.
munkle
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joey4127 said:
It's just personal preference really. The dock is mainly used for apps whilst the desktop is used for documents. You can of course put documents in the dock but you'll quickly stretch the dock to miniscule proportions! Some people put folders containing the most important docs in the dock and that seems to be a pretty good compromise. I guess one of the benefits of keeping things on the desktop is that with exposé (F11) you've got quick easy access.
Blue Velvet said:
I'm exactly the same, I'm a stickler for a tres clean desktop. I always get an irresistible urge to tidy up other people's cluttered desktops...it's an illness! 😛 🙂
munkle said:
If there's a cure for this, I don't want it...
p.s. Who else is going to sing Diana Ross songs to you at 10am on a Sat morning? 🙂