Re: dislike the dock
- From: Sawney Beane <XXbeadle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:47:43 -0400
Gray Shockley wrote:
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 14:07:18 -0500, Sawney Beane wrote:I downloaded Rocket, then found something else: XMenu from Devon Technologies. It can be set to show everything in Applications and/or certain other folders, but it also installs an empty folder in the User Library. In that, I can put aliases for the applications, documents, and folders I want handy, and I can organize those icons in folders. That's like the Apple Menu in Classic. Is that what Alias Menu does?
In Classic I could get around pretty fast. Documents and applications I wanted handy were under the Apple Menu, where I used folders to add submenus. The Switcher made it quick to jump between applications. The Control Strip was also handy, especially for checking my internet connection.
OS X has the Dock. If you leave it visible it takes up screen space, and the fewer icons you have, the more space it takes! The more icons you have, the harder it is to switch between applications.
If an application or document isn't in the Dock, you have to start opening windows.
Can the OS X interface be made less cumbersome?
Take a look at "Alias Menu"; I think the present version is 3.12.
The documentation isn't the best I've ever seen but both my wife and I would scream if we had to do without it.
We've been using it for well over a year and I've never tried to find something else as it is all I (we) need.
++ gray
When I was four I dived into a municipal swimming pool and swam halfway across underwater. I was about to stand up when I saw the diving board overhead and the 11-foot markers on the sides. It occurred to me that I didn't know how to swim, that the place was too crowded for anyone to notice me, and that I'd drown if I struggled to keep my head above water. So I swam back underwater, raising my head just long enough to inhale. It was easy.
My first few days with OS X reminded me of finding myself in the deep end. With some knowledge of the new keyboard commands, fewer icons in the Dock, and XMenu, I can swim without struggling.
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