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10.4: Make the Dictionary safer and easier to use
Authored by: valmont on Nov 21, '05 01:24:00PM

you can make your own start menu ... sorta, here's how:

- create a folder anywhere, such as on your desktop, name it "Start".
- Then open a new window that shows your apps in /Applications. Hold the "apple" and "option" keys down while dragging an Application's icon onto your "Start" folder. It'll basically create an alias of it. Inside your Start folder feel free to create more folders to further organize your aliases into the categories you mentioned.

Once you're done organizing your "Start" folder, drag it onto the "documents" section of your Dock ... where the trash lives. *gasp*. :)

Once you hold your mouse down, or right-click the Start icon on your Dock, you'll be presented with a hierarchical menu similar to the windows start menu.

A bit clumsy but that might do the trick for you. You can also install some of the 3rd-party stuff mentioned in the thread.

Personally, i've grown accustomed to just using the Dock, without categorization. I find that the spatial organization of icons serves its purpose. I'll know that chat-related apps are off on the left, text-editing stuff is toward the center, etc.

But it can get a bit unwieldy with a lot of apps, and categorization would be nice, indeed.


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