Why Use Application Launchers???

[Amie]

Originally Posted by Zimbop

If I loaded everything I use in the dock, the icons would all be 1 pixel each. End of story.

And that would be a problem for you?

Seriously though, that's a lot o' apps! I keep almost 30 in my Dock, and I still have room for more--if I should ever find it necessary to drag anymore app icons to my Dock.

[Zimbop]

Thinking about it, probably the main reason though is that I have hiding switched on. I just don't like the dock hogging vertical space, I never use it except to call up the trash. So I have to use something else to launch apps.

I think the answer to the original question is a crazy algorhythm with strange symbols that denote how many applications you use regularly, your screen resolution, your typing ability, your ability to recall shortcuts etc.

[Mikuro]

Originally Posted by Amie

My point exactly: Why even have the app launcher if you rarely use the apps that the app launcher launches.

Ugh. Never mind. My head hurts. lol

Er...why not? I mean, what's the alternative? Using slow methods like digging through folders or using nested Dock menus? Why would I want to do that when there are perfectly good application launchers out there?! Seriously....what's the advantage?

I probably have a hundred or two apps I rarely use, but not a day goes by when I don't use at least a few of them.

You seem to be operating under the assumption that installing and using an application launcher requires a lot of effort, but it doesn't. That's the whole point. It's easier and faster than the standard methods.

Configuring the Dock to include all apps you ever use does take effort — every time you install an app, you need to make aliases and sort it in your Docked folders. And then accessing them from there isn't as easy or fast as a simple app launcher anyway!

I think you just have a third-party app phobia.

[fryke]

I'm really tempted to call "troll" here. 52 posts in this thread, clear explanations why some users do and others don't like 3rd party app launchers - and still we have to come back to your basic question? It's not just sarcasm, Amie. I worry...

[Amie]

Originally Posted by Zimbop

Thinking about it, probably the main reason though is that I have hiding switched on. I just don't like the dock hogging vertical space, I never use it except to call up the trash. So I have to use something else to launch apps.

I think the answer to the original question is a crazy algorhythm with strange symbols that denote how many applications you use regularly, your screen resolution, your typing ability, your ability to recall shortcuts etc.

Oh, yeah. I always have my Dock hiding switched on as well. No point in taking up valuable screen space!

[Amie]

Originally Posted by fryke

I'm really tempted to call "troll" here. 52 posts in this thread, clear explanations why some users do and others don't like 3rd party app launchers - and still we have to come back to your basic question? It's not just sarcasm, Amie. I worry...

No one said the original question hadn't been answered. This a discussion board. People are discussing app launchers. And you (and every moderator on this site) know that I'm no troll. I've been a member here way too long for that. You worry too much, Fryke.

[fryke]

I don't worry too much, really. But trolling has nothing to do with age or how much time one has spent on a specific forum. But I guess we'll come back to that subject in about 30 posts, when one of yours might read that you still don't get why people use apps to launch apps. (Btw.: The Dock is an application as well, so is the Finder - you merely don't consider them as such, because they're somehow "always there" - but for launcher users, so are their launchers.)

[Amie]

Originally Posted by fryke

I don't worry too much, really. But trolling has nothing to do with age or how much time one has spent on a specific forum. But I guess we'll come back to that subject in about 30 posts, when one of yours might read that you still don't get why people use apps to launch apps. (Btw.: The Dock is an application as well, so is the Finder - you merely don't consider them as such, because they're somehow "always there" - but for launcher users, so are their launchers.)

See? Sometimes you CAN be funny!