Ron, are there any caveats to this? I hate to sound like a broken record, but that's not working over here, either. Best, Donna
On Jul 21, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Ronald McEwan wrote: > 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. -- 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.
