[gulmatan]

I have been using OS/X since Aqua and I still find having to go to the Dock just to bring up the Finder very cumbersome. I use apps in "Full Window" mode so, there is no way to accidentally bring up the Finder nor is there a Finder window in the background to click onto.

It's easier and more intuitive to just go back into "Apple>Recent Apps>Finder" than to swipe all the way to a lower left area just to click the Finder icon from the Dock. An upper left Dock solution is just as cumbersome. Secondly, I find the Dock very obnoxiously intrusive whether hidden or shown so, the Dock should have a "Disable" setting.

Outside of this, is there a way to put the Finder in the Recent Applications menu?

[Tesseract]

Command-Tab.

(Yes, I realize that isn't quite an answer to your question.)

[gulmatan]

Originally Posted by Tesseract

Command-Tab.

No go. Sorry forgot to mention, I don't use the keyboard much.

[Chuckit]

Swipe-click-swipe-swipe-click is faster than swipe-click?

Eh, whatever. I'd recommend FruitMenu for you.

[gulmatan]

Originally Posted by Chuckit

Swipe-click-swipe-swipe-click is faster than swipe-click?

Eh, whatever. I'd recommend FruitMenu for you.

It's not only the motion that is irritating but it's the aggravating "Dock" that's too obstructive and too intrusive.

[Tesseract]

You may want to install an "application switcher menu" like ASM.

[gulmatan]

It's not only the motion that is irritating but it's the aggravating "Dock" that's too obstructive and too intrusive. In other words, the menu is in its own dedicated area--no app windows are covered by it. On the other hand, the Dock has the area to share with any app window. I DO NOT find it very logically designed that while accessing edges of an app window, this gimmick "dock" pops up and gets in the way of your trying to work in an application's window. Thus, I find, accessing the Apple menu to switch to the Finder a more deliberate way to get there instead of accidentally activating or moving into the Dock.

[Big Mac]

Uh, how about assigning a hot corner for Exposé's Desktop (F12) command? That's how I usually access the desktop. And btw, I just recently stared hiding the dock on my iBook, and I find it works really well - very rarely do I accidentally activate it.

[gulmatan]

How?! Even if you move into the region of the Dock, the dung fangled thing pops up? You see, it's the Dock I want to avoid, not the Desktop. There has to be a way to completely DESTROY the dock. For obvious example, look at a "Windows" window--the "Tray" has its own dedicated area, The application window is in no way intruded upon. Both the App window andthe System Tray have their OWN and SEPARATE dedicated areas. One does not interfere with the other.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by gulmatan

How?! Even if you move into the region of the Dock, the dung fangled thing pops up

If by "the region of the Dock," you mean a two-pixel-high line at the bottom of the screen…

[bmedina]

Try moving the dock to the side of the screen, and leave it unhidden.

What apps are you running full-screen constantly?

[Fonzie]

Use Tinkertool or some other app that can move the Dock off to a corner and make it as small as you can before doing so. Once I used DragThing instead of the Dock and I had the Dock hidden up under the menubar at the top of the screen-although centered not cornered. Try it, you may like it.

[Detrius]

Originally Posted by Big Mac

Uh, how about assigning a hot corner for Exposé's Desktop (F12) command? That's how I usually access the desktop. And btw, I just recently stared hiding the dock on my iBook, and I find it works really well - very rarely do I accidentally activate it.

...and get a mouse that has a lot of buttons. You can set up the extra buttons on the mouse to do exposé stuff.

[andreas_g4]

Originally Posted by Big Mac

Uh, how about assigning a hot corner for Exposé's Desktop (F12) command? That's how I usually access the desktop.

Exactly. Takes .25 sec.