>I'd love to have had that years ago, when I still tried to use icons. Icon's work fine if there's just a dozen of them and you regularly open one app at a time, then close it before opening the next one. I presently count 13 desktop windows (let's see... text editor, skype, mail, browser, music player, SQL tool, task manager, two document, source control client, only one fox and a virtual machine - the ubuntu, of course). To open yet another one, I'd have to minimize everything, then find the icon I want, yell at windows for moving them around again, launch the thing, then remember what was it what I wanted to have open along with it, hover over the taskbar and wait for the windows to pop up the list of documents I have open, remember which one I wanted (I wonder, in LibreOffice, does it count sWriter and sCalc as the same app or not)... bah. Alt-space, and Launchy comes up with its inputbox, I type 2-3 characters, not necessarily in proper order (for something called 'slight' I type just 'lih' and it knows, the most intelligent MRU I ever saw), done.
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>IOW, icons belong in the church. My monitor is not an iconostas.


I have 63 icons, in a very specific order that I keep since, well many many years so I need to restore the desktop now and again (although with Windows 8 is not as frequently as it used to be!)