So for those of you who like the welcone screen and want it you have these users to thank for having it removed and the real reason they are aginst the welcome screen which they call superfluous, is, is that to them it look like it was not what they think of as being professional. You can argue with them that they could easily turn it off but even this offends their idea or vision of their professional standing.
They happen to be wrong about this on all fronts and the welcome screen will have to be returned to Ai as it will be part of the interface for the Cloud it is essentail that AI be part of the Cloud or Adobe will have to drop Illustrator and incorporate it into Photoshop and bring back the welcome screen to Photoshop.
With the advent of the Cloud the welcome screen will be the gateway to your projects and your work and your bvack up storage and access to not onl applicattions and files but to your clients and file transfers regardless of where you are in the world even when you have limited access to the web and there will be no need to lug a laptop with you on the plane.
The concept that i can set this up or that up or this other thing up with out the welvome screen is ludicrous at best when you cn mangge your work from any application.
BTW folks these are the same folk who think the Bridge is useless as well in spite of all the advantages it offers and some of them might even be resposnible for not having the minibridge in Illustrator which would allow one to drag and drop files into an open documet or drag it into the application frame and open the file that was as well.
R ight now you have to refocus to the Bridge or if you are running ID or Photoshop snd have the minibridge running drag and drop from those minibridge panels to AI or fight witht he finder, which can be a nightmre no mater how well you have it organbized.
And Scott there are people out there that usee many more applications than you do in one sitting and work from corporate files that are not organized like you have it organized and both the bridge and the welcome screen is the right place for them to mange their work flow.
And even if you have a job abd they let you do what you want they do not do this in other companies.
The welcome screen is a portal that is the way for Adobe to overcponme their problems with networks and large corproate infrastructures and a chance to even get some of that bvusiness.
Those who think the welcome screen is superfluous are not seeing a much larger picture. And since they never bothered to use it they never saw that value in it.
I thought when I first saw it why would I need this but then I tried it, just to test it and just to see what it was about, it proved that it had far more potential than I thought it did.
Anyway it will come back and hopefully in a do rlease soon.
I say some of you are short sighted and too insecure about your professiona l status to let the Welcome screen make you react with such drastic resposne as it is not needed so get rid of it and yet we still have the Flare tool?
I was going to delete this but decided to leave it.
The Wewlcome Screen has to return!
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