Aleksey Shaferov

>From that absolute path on, go "upward" in the file system hierarchy until you encounter a directory ending in .AppDir or .app This is also an option. However, it will...

> against the Dock Thanks for the answer! Interesting text. However, it seems to me that some of the problems from the list have already been solved. For example, document...

I was just thinking about some kind of menu for applications. I asked myself, what do I do more often: switching between applications or using the menu within the application?...

> in order to take advantage of Fitts’s Law This is exactly what I'm talking about. Fitts’s Law, not for the menu, but for switching between applications. There are many...

> If the menu of running applications was to the right end of the screen and could be made to be permanently open Are you talking about something like this?...

> much like a real life desk When there are a lot of things on a real life desk, It is difficult to find one thing. Try to find a...

> almost 

> we want Search to be the first item I completely agree. >Exactly, but probably on the right-hand side of the screen because Sorry, I can't understand from the description,...

Inspired by Unity. With some improvements.     Sorry for bad English :-)

This is the very same problem that caused me to drop development of my DockBarX (dock panel for Linux) many years ago, It took too many workarounds for everything to...