Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
CHAPTER
2
The Tips
Tip 1
Make Launchpad Bigger (or Smaller)
By default, Launchpad displays your app icons in a grid that's usually 5x8
icons in size.
By reducing or increasing the size of this grid, which can be achieved by
adjusting a few secret settings, the icons will increase or decrease in size to
fill the space, allowing you to fit more of them in (or fewer!).
However, if the icons increase in size, this will mean more pages of icons
within Launchpad because fewer app icons will now be able to fit on each
page. Accordingly, decreasing the size of icon grid will mean more can fit on
a page.
There's another side effect too—the number of apps icons that can fit within
a Launchpad folder is defined by the grid size setting. So, if you have fewer
icons on-screen, folders will also contain fewer icons. If you already have a
folder packed full of app icons in Launchpad (such as the
OTHER
folder), OS X
automatically fixes things by creating additional folders as overflow for the
remaining app icons (usually with numbers affixed to the end, such as
OTHER
1
,
OTHER2
, and so on).
Note that this tweak also adjusts the size of the icons in the Add Widgets
component of Dashboard—a small side effect.
