Talk:Uninstalling Applications in Mac OS X

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Longofest, why did you changed the line:

"This only removes the dock icon, it does not remove anything from your hard disk." to
"This will only remove the dock icon/shortcut, and will not touch the application itself."  ?

I think your edit is much more convoluted and confusing. Not only doesn't removing the dock icon "touch" the application itself (a weird and non descriptive choice of words), it also doesn't remove anything else like the enclosing folder, associated readme's, documents or anything else. Also, changing "dock icon" to "dock icon/shortcut" adds nothing and makes the whole sentence much more confusing. If you want to change the original sentence I think you should come up with a much better replacement, imo. -motulist

Removing the dock icon does in fact "remove" something from your hard disk... it removes the icon/shortcut that is on the dock, which is represented in a property list string. I saw what you were going for, which was the fact that the dock shortcut was deleted, but the application itself was not deleted, and I changed it so that it would better describe that fact without making over-arching statements like "it does not remove anything from your hard disk." I have modified the wording slightly to include addressing the fact that it also does not touch the support files. If you have any other ideas for replacements, lets bounce them around here. I'm sure we can figure something out that works for both of us. --Longofest 00:22, 24 May 2006 (EDT)

This article was clearly written by someone who has been mac brainwashed, and it is irritating me to read. Statements like "Application support files are typically trivial in size" and "mac uninstalling is much simpler than windows" is too heavy-handed and in many cases false. There are many cases when App Support files take up GIGABYTES of disk space (DVD Studio Pro comes to mind, as well as GarageBand), and Windows uninstallation is easy: just uninstall from the Add/Remove programs control panel. Later today I plan on making some changes to make the article more even-handed, and remove the overly-biased statements (make it more factual). --Longofest 13:07, 20 March 2006 (EST)

There is no mention of uninstalling applications that manifest as a control panel....