[OSX-Users] Re: Lion Mail.app

[Philip Boulain]

On 20/07/2011 20:47, Jules Field wrote:
> I very much doubt I will use Launchpad, but my Mum would love it.

 From what I can glean from a video of and article about it, it's a 
thing you launch from your Dock (or a trackpad gesture, which is not 
exactly discoverable*, and a four-fingered one at that!) that then shows 
more things to launch in a fullscreen grid?

I'm not sure how this is more Mum-friendly than just having the program 
pinned in the Dock in the first place (which also has a the huge 
advantage of making the UI action for "get this program up on my screen" 
the same if it was already running or not). Or just putting surplus 
shortcuts on the desktop, if you have a Mum who runs a substantial set 
of software.

What am I missing here?

-- 
Phil

* Specifically, if said Mum hasn't used the computer for a while, not 
being tethered to the things every day, and has forgotten what exact 
combination of fondling is required, there's no easy way to find out. It 
may as well be a blinking DOS prompt in that regard.