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Neil,

For a lot of us, the ability to organize our workspace the way we like it is one of the reasons we started using Macs in 1984 (or, for me, anyway, 1986) and have stayed with Apple through thick and thin.

I manage user interface development, so I have some idea about how hard it can be to do things "the Macintosh Way". It has always been harder to develop on a platform that *demands* that you make your product adapt to the user, rather than the other way around, but this is why there is a cult of Macintosh, because it put the entire user experience (even little things that you dismiss like allowing me to put my apps where I like to) first. Why do you think they spend so much on packaging? Because _everything_ matters, from the feel of the cardboard to the size of the manuals.

And yes, even where I can put my dog-gone applications.

I don't like having *any* applications loose in my Application folder, and (among so-called "professional" products) ONLY Adobe requires it. I can't even _delete_ the stupid "Adobe Help Viewer 1.1.app" from my Applications folder, because Adobe just re-creates it behind my back.

The proper attitude that wise developers adopt is that their apps are there at the pleasure of the user. They are the user's servants. They do not tell the user where they want to stand, they stand where the user tells them to.

I don't care whether Adobe thinks that their applications are an operating-system-within-an-operating-system. It's their job to figure out how to do it in a way that does not annoy their customers. Yes, it will be harder to do it right, but do it right.