(from the author) Can totally understand how for some folks this isn't an issue at all. But for spastic me it was a stubborn one I found myself losing time on. Perhaps in part because I have my repeat rate jacked way up using KeyRemap4Macbook - http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/.
I'd Cmd-Tab my way into Finderland a few times a day and inadvertently trigger new Finder windows instead of new Chrome windows with Cmd+N - stuff like that.
Getting Finder out of the rotation prevents this from happening. While I still might double-tab back to the original window, I usually spot that before too much typing b/c it's where my eyes originally were looking.
And aesthetically I'll always take the less number of icons when I can.
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(from the author) Can totally understand how for some folks this isn't an issue at all. But for spastic me it was a stubborn one I found myself losing time on. Perhaps in part because I have my repeat rate jacked way up using KeyRemap4Macbook - http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/.
I'd Cmd-Tab my way into Finderland a few times a day and inadvertently trigger new Finder windows instead of new Chrome windows with Cmd+N - stuff like that.
Getting Finder out of the rotation prevents this from happening. While I still might double-tab back to the original window, I usually spot that before too much typing b/c it's where my eyes originally were looking.
And aesthetically I'll always take the less number of icons when I can.
Umm, why not quit it instead?
In Terminal / iTerm2:
defaults write com.apple.Finder QuitMenuItem 1
Relaunch and now you get a Quit menu (in menubar and in contextual menu on Dock)
Quit it when you don't need it, Dock launch it when you want it back.
I just did; thanks!