Re: Why no Newsreader.app? AND MORE!

In article <1iu61zm.1si6li01d3cmbiN%jamiekg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jamie
Kahn Genet <jamiekg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Creating an alias is harder than moving an app?

one is a simple drag and the other is either cmd-l followed by a drag
(a two step operation) or cmd-option drag (a two handed operation).

and if the application is installed to the desired location in the
first place, there is no need to move it *or* make an alias.

Especially if you don't
have permissions to move the app, it can take a LOT longer as you enter
admin username and password, etc.

why in the world wouldn't i have permission to move the app?? how did
it get installed???

you're grasping at straws.

I'm sorry, but aliases are faster,
easier, avoid hassle, and grant great flexibility.

so let me see if i get this right.

dragging an app from a .dmg to the apps folder followed by making an
alias of it and then putting that alias into a second folder is faster
and easier than simply dragging the app from the .dmg directly to the
second folder.

is that what you are claiming??

What on Earth do you have against them?

what on earth do you have against letting the user arrange their hard
drive the way they want??

why must it be arranged *your* way?

you could also have multiple systems on one hard drive which made
developing and testing software very easy. with os x, you need
multiple hard drives (or at least multiple partitions), and then figure
out how to share duplicate apps and home folders.

progress.

Why would you have duplicate apps and home folders???

because for multiple versions of os x, each install would be on a
separate hard drive or partition with its own apps and home folders.
you can later configure it so that they all share one common set of
folders, but that's more work.

granted, not everyone needs to switch among multiple systems, but for
those who do (mainly software developers and testers), it was *very*
convenient before os x.

If you mean home
folders for multiple users, well then - that's why you'd keep your apps
in the /Applications folder.

not what i mean at all.
.

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