Re:On Desktop GUI Minimalism
by Wowfunhappy on Sunday September 10, 2023 @10:28AM
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> An application launcher menu would simply be a folder you open like any other, containing launchers. Open the folder, size and shape it how you want, put it in whatever view style you want, and stick it somewhere on your screen.
The author is not taking the metaphor far enough! He left out one of my favorite pieces of Mac OS.
The folder does not contain application launchers. It contains the actual applications themselves. An application is just a file. To "install" an application, copy the file to a location on your hard drive. To "uninstall" an application, delete the file.
Under the hood, applications can be a collection of files, whatever, but the GUI should treat each application as one file. To install Google Chrome, just drop "Google Chrome.app" somewhere on your hard drive. To remove Google Chrome, delete "Google Chrome.app".
Re:On Desktop GUI Minimalism
by netdoll on Sunday September 10, 2023 @10:44AM
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It's not mentioned in the article, but the author uses AppImages for GUI applications wherever and whenever he can. He's very well aware of this aspect of the classic Mac OS and seeks to emulate it as closely as possible.
The author is not taking the metaphor far enough! He left out one of my favorite pieces of Mac OS.
The folder does not contain application launchers. It contains the actual applications themselves. An application is just a file. To "install" an application, copy the file to a location on your hard drive. To "uninstall" an application, delete the file.
Under the hood, applications can be a collection of files, whatever, but the GUI should treat each application as one file. To install Google Chrome, just drop "Google Chrome.app" somewhere on your hard drive. To remove Google Chrome, delete "Google Chrome.app".