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I really hope that the Launchpad is the only way to access your applications, i.e. that the old Applications folder is hidden and that the OS, not the user or a

by ugh 16y ago

I really hope that the Launchpad is the only way to access your applications, i.e. that the old Applications folder is hidden and that the OS, not the user or app developer manages its content. I just despise that phony two-level way of organizing your applications that is so prevalent on Windows, i.e. their applications folder(s) and the Start Menu. If the old Applications folder continues to be accessible I really hope that there is, unlike in the Windows Start Menu, a 1:1 mapping, i.e. folders created in the Launchpad are also created in the Applications folder and applications deleted in the Launchpad are also deleted in the Applications folder.

derefr 16y ago
I'm having a hard time imagining how this whole thing works with a multi-user Mac. Right now, every user account has one iTunes account associated with it, such that different users own different iOS App Store apps. Does that mean that the Mac App Store will only install apps per-user? It didn't seem to suggest that (they said that the app licenses are "per computer", though they also called them "personal.")
- MaysonL 16y ago
  Apps will, according to the keynote, be licensed like iOS apps, for all your personal computers.
  - jasonlotito 16y ago
    Which does nothing to answer the above question. My wife and I have two computers we share interchangeably. We each have an iPhone, share an iPad, and have an AppleTV (not the latest). If I had to go by the past, the App Store on the Mac is going to have abysmal support for multi-user environments. Hopefully this is not the case. Hopefully the apps I buy work on both accounts on both devices.
- protomyth 16y ago
  I would bet it still installs stuff in /Applications and just has a per user preference for showing the arrangement of the apps in launch pad.
- ugh 16y ago
  Oh, haven’t thought of that. It sounds as though apps are installed for all users, just as before. I’m not sure whether I’m a fan of keeping both prominent file system access around and adding the Launchpad which would then presumably store all its folders and arrangements in a preference file and not in the filesystem. That’s just so damn inelegant! What I would like, though, is if they gave developers who don’t want or can distribute their app through the App Store some way to easily hook up with the way the real App Store is doing things, i.e. you download a file, open it and the app is installed. You don’t have to run an installer or drag the App to your folder. That would be nice but I’m not expecting it.

by ugh 16y ago

derefr 16y ago

I'm having a hard time imagining how this whole thing works with a multi-user Mac. Right now, every user account has one iTunes account associated with it, such that different users own different iOS App Store apps. Does that mean that the Mac App Store will only install apps per-user? It didn't seem to suggest that (they said that the app licenses are "per computer", though they also called them "personal.")

MaysonL 16y ago
Apps will, according to the keynote, be licensed like iOS apps, for all your personal computers.
- jasonlotito 16y ago
  Which does nothing to answer the above question. My wife and I have two computers we share interchangeably. We each have an iPhone, share an iPad, and have an AppleTV (not the latest). If I had to go by the past, the App Store on the Mac is going to have abysmal support for multi-user environments. Hopefully this is not the case. Hopefully the apps I buy work on both accounts on both devices.
protomyth 16y ago
I would bet it still installs stuff in /Applications and just has a per user preference for showing the arrangement of the apps in launch pad.
ugh 16y ago
Oh, haven’t thought of that. It sounds as though apps are installed for all users, just as before. I’m not sure whether I’m a fan of keeping both prominent file system access around and adding the Launchpad which would then presumably store all its folders and arrangements in a preference file and not in the filesystem. That’s just so damn inelegant! What I would like, though, is if they gave developers who don’t want or can distribute their app through the App Store some way to easily hook up with the way the real App Store is doing things, i.e. you download a file, open it and the app is installed. You don’t have to run an installer or drag the App to your folder. That would be nice but I’m not expecting it.