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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