From: "Dennis B. Swaney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>I'm not Bruce, but I'd like to answer that as well: I keep a few (literally 10) of my MOST-USED apps in the Dock. Mainly Safari, Mail, iTunes, iChat, Toast, iCal, and a couple of others. Everything else is on the left side of the Dock, in icon-identified folders like "Video," "Graphics," "Utilities" and so on. If you click-and-hold on any of these folder, up pops a list of the apps therein. So instead of trying to keep 50 apps in a very tiny Dock, I keep 10 apps and 10 folders and have immediate access to more than 200 apps.* I maintain a favorites folder in the dock, so a click and hold allows me
to find all my most-used programs with a simple click and hold.
So you don't put individual applications in the dock?
Since I frequently work on very short-duration projects, I'll create a folder somewhere with the name of the project, throw all the material I need into it, and drag it to the Dock. Now I can get to that project immediately until I'm finished at which point the Dock icon gets "poofed" though of course the actual folder stays on the hard drive.
My main gripe is it was inferred that I am stupid or lazy because I "Think Different" and I don't do thing the way Steve Jobs says I should. That sounds like a Microsoft state of mind to me.
Nobody said or inferred anything of the kind. I simply said that people who rely on OS 9-like crutches like FruitMenu and Windowshade haven't taken the time to really understand that the changes are in point of fact more efficient and have dismissed them as "change for change's sake," which simply isn't true. However, there's no law that says you HAVE to learn the system, or appreciate the changes on the level they were intended. You can go right on using the OS 9 crutches for as long as you like (or at least as long as they're supported). As for Microsoft, they ABSOLUTELY FORBID the kind of system-level tinkering these tools employ, so I fail to see how it's very "microsoft like."
_Chas_
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