![]() ![]() Only, I don’t want to have to hold down modifier keys, especially when using the trackpad. If I instead add actual folders (not aliases) to the Dock, holding down ⌥⌘ (option-command) when I click them does exactly what I want. If I do that now, the click-to-open part works, but the aliases all look like blank text documents with tiny arrows. In the Before Times, I could create an alias to the folder and drop that in the Dock, the icon in the Dock would look like the target folder, and clicking on the alias opened the folder’s window. When I click on them, I get a popup (wince) or a Stack (shudder) instead of them just opening the target folder in the Finder. One of the bigger ones is rooted in folders kept on the Dock, to the right of the bar that divides them from the application icons. Given the previous problem, the Dock is the only thing available to me, and I have gripes about it. None of these switchers let me keep persistent static one-click shortcuts to launch a variety of applications and open commonly-used folders. Quit an application, its icon disappears. Launch an application, its icon is added. There are super-powered application switchers available for macOS, but as far as I’ve seen, they only list the applications actually running. (I used the Dock at the bottom of the screen to show me that.) And also, if I launched an application that wasn’t in the DragThing shelf, it did not add an icon for that application to the shelf. When I quit Firefox, the indicator went away but the Firefox icon stayed. When I launched, say, Firefox, then there would be a little indicator next to its application icon in DragThing to indicate it was running. It stayed there all the time, and the icons were always there whether or not the application was running. The way I used DragThing was to have a long shelf down the right side of my monitor containing small-but-recognizable icons representing my most-used folders (home directory, Downloads, Documents, Applications, a few other folders) and a number of applications. You never know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone, right? But let me be clear about exactly what it did for me, which so far as I can tell no macOS application does, nor does macOS itself. I know I already complained about the lack of DragThing, but I really, really do miss what it did for me. This isn’t on Apple, but still, it’s a huge loss for me. So I’m going to gripe here in hopes someone who knows more than me will have recommendations to ameliorate my annoyance. At first I thought this was because I skipped directly from OS X 10.14 to macOS 13, and simply wasn’t used to How The Kids Do Things These Days®, but apparently I would’ve felt the same even if I’d kept current with OS updates. No, my complaints are entirely about the user environment. Plus, all the keyboard keys Just Work™, unlike the MBP it replaced! So that’s nice. Not about the hardware, which is solid yet lightweight, super-quiet yet incredibly fast and powerful, long-lived on battery, and decent enough under the fingertips. I’ve been a bit over a month now on my new 14” MacBook Pro, and I have complaints.
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