I'm with you on that one! I like the G in GUI to stand for Graphical! Oh, hang on, it's already meant to!

I'm not knocking the people who do, 'cause it obviously works for them, but it stuns me when I see people explaining how they (for example) use Terminal to make a backup of a file (re-name it). I just don't get how starting terminal, switching to the appropriate directory, then typing "sudo mv filename.ext Filename -old.ext" is better than opening finder, navigating to the directory, then hitting return! GUI every time for me please!

Mark

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This was , meant to be in reply to another reply above! I'll copy it to the correct location seeing as I can't edit or delete my own posts :(

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For hierarchical menus, though, LaunchBar is halfway between textual and graphical. Cmd-Space to access LB, and then type the start of the folder name or a very short abbreviation you've trained LB to recognize. Then, you can navigate that folder's hierarchy using right arrow and up and down arrow keys. You can click on a folder or use paging keys to make larger leaps. For me, that is much easier to control in a deep menu hierarchy than the popup sort of thing you get with the Dock's old hierarchical menus.

That said, the Stacks approach is lacking because, if your stack contains folders, clicking them opens them in the Finder. You can't drill down. So you are forced to manually create a folder of aliases. It needs work, or additional tools, like an AppleScript that will let you select a bunch of files and will automatically create a folder of aliases for those files. That would be easy to do, I think.

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