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If you can remember the name of the application without prompting. I'll frequently have to troll through my /Applications directory looking for something that
by semanticist 16y ago
If you can remember the name of the application without prompting.
I'll frequently have to troll through my /Applications directory looking for something that does X that I know I installed ages ago and will recognise when I see it.
It's important to have multiple useful ways to get to your applications. My unprompted recall, in general, is quite weak, but someone else might have vision issues that makes distinguishing icons apart difficult. For this kind of basic functionality, I think that having several high-quality approaches is best.
- Groxx 16y agoA good reason to include meta info about applications, so it can be pulled up after name matches. Personally, I've almost quit using the Windows start menu. I hit win-key and start typing. Utterly pathetically slow and inaccurate compared to using something like QuickSilver or Alfred, but I can still get places much more quickly than using a mouse when I'm programming.