Re: Ping: Hackintoshers.

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:06:32 +0100, thewildrover@xxxxxx (Andy Hewitt)
wrote:


Or you could just shorten it to Command+Option+drag. Job done.

But who on earth would ever stumble on that bizarre combination!

'Stumble', it's documented

<click> No Carrier ;-)

With Windows (or Ubuntu) you don't 'generally' have to do anything, it
just happens all by itself and in my mind (and use) that simply can't
be beaten?

Eh? Now that's something less logical, don't you have to find the app,
right click, then navigate to the less obvious 'Send To...' sub-menu?

NO! That's the whole faffin point (you are winding me up right)? You
run the installer (Windows / Ubuntu) and (generally) it installs the
app AND AUTOMATICALLY creates an entry in the appropriate menu ... and
(often/also/optionally) gives you a shortcut on the desktop. Did you
say you had actually used either OS? ;-)

It's exactly the same logic as hardware being 'automagically' detected
and made available so why would you want apps to be any different?

Not sure what relevance that has to be honest. All my apps appear in the
Applications folder,

Once you have put them there by opening the installer and dragging
them across? Then to access them you have to open up the file system,
navigate to the apps folder and possibly sub folder then find the app
to launch it? With Windows / Ubuntu, clicking on the installer does
the installation bit (putting it in the progs folder) AND, creating a
entry in the start menu for you (typically).

and show up in the hierarchial menu I have in the
Dock, all automatically, and exactly where *I* want them to be.

Not seen the dock menu thing.

And I don't care what you like, I was explaining why *I* didn't find
OSX intuitive or easy! ;-)

Cheers, T i m

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