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There is one huge limitation though: running apps in full screen in multi-monitor setup is unusable. Full screen is not a big deal for desktops with hi-res screens since you have the screen estate for multiple windows but in a laptop, especially 13” and smaller, Full Screen can take better advantage of every single pixel on your screen. You can also work with multiple full screen windows effortlessly. You don’t need to minimize your full screen window in order to use other windows. In my opinion, Apple’s approach makes usage of full screen a little more complicated than in Windows but at the same time, full screen applications are more usable. The end result is a truly monolithic experience where you're only interacting with one application at a time, and even then the resemblence to iOS is quite strong since full screen mode does away with the Dock and the OS menu bar. That way you don’t have to to exit from full screen when you want to change the window, you simply use the gestures to scroll between Spaces or use Mission Control. If you make a window full screen, it will create an own Space for that window. Basically, full screen windows act as individual Spaces. Earlier in this article, we talked about Mission Control and how it works. However, as usual, Apple likes to reinvent the wheel and do things differently than others, and full screen is no exception.Īpple’s approach is a bit more than just a maximize button. In fact, it may sound a bit laughable considering that it has taken Apple this long to integrate any OS wide full screen feature to OS X. Perhaps this is Apple's way of introducing iOS users who've never owned a Mac to launching apps in OS X?įor people who have used Windows, making windows full screen may not seem like a big feature since it has been included in Windows for ages. With a single page of icons, Launchpad may be a more consumer-friendly way to launch applications. I can see Launchpad working well for users that don't have that many applications on their Mac however. Call me lazy, but there are so many other ways to launch an app which doesn’t require that, and I think I will stick with them. I would have to group them again just for Launchpad. For instance, I have my Adobe apps neatly in Adobe CS5 folder, so they don’t take up my whole applications folder when I’m browsing it (very annoying with Stacks). What I find the most irritating is that Launchpad does not recognize your existing folders. Why would I open Launchpad to launch an app when I could open the app I want to open straightaway? Making it so hard to access takes away its usability. This even applies to Magic Mouse, although it is possible to add gestures using third party software. On a desktop, the only way to open Launchpad is to either click it in Dock or use Spotlight, unless you have the Magic Trackpad. Launchpad may, however, offer more utility on a laptop with multitouch trackpad because it is easy to trigger it with a gesture. It's one of the less successful iOS imports - it doesn’t fit in, nor does it bring anything truly new, since the Stacks feature has been doing same thing for a while now.Ī Stacks view of the Applications folder. There are a number of faster ways to launch an app, especially Spotlight. I’ve been using Lion since the first Developer Preview and I’ve only used Launchpad a handful of times. In all honesty, I find Launchpad to be fairly useless. Once you trigger Launchpad, you're shown all of your Mac's programs in a tile layout identical to iOS's Home Screen, and its behavior is as expected: apps can be moved into folders, and can take up multiple pages which can be navigated using your touchpad or your mouse. Launchpad acts as an individual application so you can add it to Dock (though it is there by default) or you can launch it using a specific gesture, or simply Spotlight it. It’s heavily influenced by iOS’s Home Screen and anyone who has used iOS will be familiar with Launchpad’s functions. Launchpad is Apple’s new application launcher.
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