was it like a launcher before the winkey menu had search
it just feels completely vestigial

kind of obsessed with the pressure sensitive buttons on the dualshock 2 & 3
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was it like a launcher before the winkey menu had search
it just feels completely vestigial
following the metaphor, it would seem to be a place to store documents you're working on right now, and the tools you use every day. (or at least shortcuts to those things.)
I'd think this was more important in the days of really slow spinners, where it might have been a chore to search or navigate through folders to get to a file stored properly
and like most real life desktops, I believe, they usually just become cluttered messes
It's the ghost haunting contemporary flat design: the ghost of skeumorphism.
that's my second favorite spectre to be haunted by