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I know it's probably classified as an alpha geek thing, but using
quicksilver kinda negates any use of the dock (or /Applications) as a
launcher - but if we're talking about people that leave things in dmgs
and run them from there, well. ouch.
On 6/2/06, Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs-hates@xxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> * Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-06-01T20:19:38]
> > There should be a "/Local/Applications" by default to drag stuff
> > into and install stuff into, and "/Applications" should be stuff
> > that only Apple fucks with. Then maybe the few remaining idiot
> > developers who write pointless "installers" would catch on and at
> > LEAST install to a hierarchy that you can drag into a new computer.
>
> The problem there becomes that people have more applications than they want in
> the dock, so they're used to going to Finder -> Applications for anything they
> run. ("Why do I have to go into /Utilities/? Ugh!")
>
> djb-esque /command could be implemented as a smart folder located at
> /Applications, aggregating from ~/Applications, /System/Applications, and
> anything flagged @Application in Spotlight. There wouldn't be anything to hate
> about that, right..?
>
> --
> rjbs
>
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