Pinch three fingers and thumb to bring up LaunchPad.
In the Journey, Ron On Jul 21, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > I was under the impression that there was a mouse jesture while track pad > commander was disabled that a blind, or sighted person could do to slide > launchpad into view, but I can't for the life a me remember what it is. does > anyone remember? > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Austin Seraphin > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 1:48 PM > Subject: Re: Launchpad > > I don't know about worthless. I actually think it might have some cool > potential. It does have a few differences than a standard grid view. Firstly, > in theory, you can drag and drop applications like in iOS. This includes > dropping one application on top of another to form a folder. Many blind > people already know about this from having an iDevice. I'd kind of like a > nice home screen or three with some cool folders. The launchpad also has > another interesting feature: in addition to looking in /Applications (off the > root), it also looks in ~/Applications (off the home directory). I could > imagine some interesting uses for that. But as you've pointed out elsewhere, > we have several quite handy ways to launch applications. > > - Austin > > On Jul 21, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > >> Yup, >> >> It works its just worthless. lol. Its just basically viewing apps in a >> grid view. >> >> Ricardo Walker >> rwalker...@gmail.com >> Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 >> www.mobileaccess.org >> >> On Jul 21, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Mary Otten wrote: >> >>> Daniel, >>> There was a post on this list from someone who said that launchpad doesn't >>> seem to be a very useful tool for blind folks, and then he detailed some of >>> his reasons. >>> Mary Otten >>> motte...@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
