So I never intended to suggest that launchpad doesn't work, and thanks to Chris
for the tip about escape, that will indeed dismiss the launchpad.
I maintain that it is pretty useless though. Folders make sense in IOS, where
there is no list of all your apps that can be accessed quickly through first
letter navigation, with the exception of spotlight. With Lion though, the
applications folder, the doc, spotlight, all seem like much faster ways of
locating and launching apps.
I'd be interested in knowing if and how others have found launchpad to be
useful.
Cheers,
Marc
----- Original Message -----
From: Austin Seraphin
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:48 AM
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
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