If you need more than the Dock and don’t mind some tweaking and twiddling to configure it, TabLauncher is an elegant way to manage many apps. Tabs are just a more efficient use of space, and apps are still a single click away. In many respects, TabLauncher is a much needed improvement over the Dock, though not quite as easy to set up, but easier to use, especially if your Mac is loaded with apps. When TabLauncher’s Preferences are open, the tabs pop out so you can see you customizations. Preferences even gives you options to manage tab behavior, animations, and effects. You control the Icon text labels (even color and shadow, position, size, and spacing). There are seven tab Styles to choose from and Tabs can be customized, too, giving you options on fonts and colors. General Controls allow you to load and save TabLauncher configurations, open at login, display in the Menubar, even import app icons from the Dock (or reset to defaults). You control the tab locations, various skins, fonts and sizes and shadows, the text used on each app icon, spacing between icons, and much more. Setting up TabLauncher can be much more complicated than using the app. Here’s how it looks during initial setup. Then, the tab retreats back and out of the way. Move the mouse pointer over a tab and it pops out a bit, revealing the app icons. You can add your own custom tiles to the app launcher that point to SharePoint sites, external sites, legacy apps, and more. The tabs float quietly on the side (left or right, top or bottom) of your Mac’s screen. TabLauncher works in a similar manner but doesn’t take up the whole screen when launched. The following code example writes text to a file, and opens the text file. If more than one app is registered with the file type, an app selection popover is shown to the user. NET MAUI automatically detects the file type (MIME), and opens the default app for that file type. Navigate the top-most menu to the Games tab and select Add a Non-Steam. Move the Mac’s mouse pointer to a hot spot at the side of the screen, and the floating palette of app icons pops up. The launcher can also be used to open an app with a selected file. Heroic is an open source GOG and Epic Games launcher for Linux, macOS and Windows. One aspect of DragThing I like is the hot spot. Tabs? We Don’t Need No Stinking Tabs? Or, Do We? By using Clio Launcher, you can click a link in Clio to open any file in its relevant desktop application (Word, Excel, etc.). I’ve gone from Dock to floating palette to tabs to find a worthy Mac app launcher. My Dock shortcut icon is filled with app icons and they shift with every new entry or deletion. Even the time honored DragThing floating palette launcher is crowded to overflowing. That means my Mac’s Dock is cluttered to the point of nearly unusable. Through the course of the year I’ll try out a few hundred more apps. It’s not exactly a secret the my Mac is loaded with apps.
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