Floyd L. Davidson
There are some extremely harsh limitations on using icons for an interface to anything that is complex. And you are bound by that, but I'm not. Your desktop interface was derived from systems that were single user single tasking. Each program went into a single directory. The icon that brings up an editor will always have the same working directory.

Savageduck
You seem to be very misinformed regarding OSX, either that or you have your own particular prejudice regarding any OS other than Linux.

Floyd L. Davidson
I don't mix data, or configuration files for various projects into the same working directory.

With the iconified desktop you either mix the data files into the same directories, or each time you use a different program launched from an icon you will have to manually reconfigure it. That makes chaining the work of multiple programs together unweldy, and causes programs to retain a do everything style that was necessary when the "OS" was just a program loader. (And that is the root cause of most of the security problems with Windows.)

Savageduck
OSX is not Windows, and even Windows isn't what it started out as. You have some preconceived, ...er miconcieved notions regarding what they actually are and how they function.