Re: Why no Newsreader.app? AND MORE!

nospam <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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).

You can create aliases via dragging. It's been this way since System 7,
IIRC.

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 run as an Admin user? Unwise.

you're grasping at straws.

You don't know what you're doing if you don't know why I'd be asked
permission to move an app. If you're a newbie try reading a manual and
stop bitching here.

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.

Again - Why would I not just command-option drag to make an alias?

is that what you are claiming??

No, I'm saying it's an easier process assuming the app is already
installed (you did saying "moving about" originally, not 'install'). If
not, then I grant you it's one more very easy step that takes about
three seconds and has to be done a grand total of ONE times. Wherever
will you find the time?

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??

Nothing, but there are reasons - not all of which you may appreciate or
like - for how things are, and all I'm saying is it only takes three
seconds max to command-option drag an alias into being exactly where you
want. It's not rocket science and not worth getting all torn up about
IMO.

why must it be arranged *your* way?

My way? LOL. I'm responsible now for OSX and BSD Unix's design? Wow! I
had no idea...

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.

Well, you're absolutely the average user... Anyway, most apps can be
shared from another Mac eliminating the need for multiple installs on
multiple machines/OS installations.

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.

Then be clear next time.
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