How do you launch Pages in Leopard?

Question

Double clicking the Pages icon in a Finder window launches Pages of course, and it works fine.
Likewise, launching it from the list of Recent Items works.
However, in Tiger I used to also launch it from the Application folder, which I had conveniently put in the Dock. Click on the Application folder and hold down the mouse button, drag to the iWork folder and then to the Pages application.
This was very convenient for all those applications that are inside their own folders in the Application folder, like Photoshop, Excel, Pages, and so on.
With Leopard, that way of launching an application is gone. Click on the Application folder in the Dock and you get a "Stack" and you have to click on the iWork folder which will open a Finder window, where you can click on the Pages icon - then click on the close button of the Finder window to get rid of the Desktop clutter.
I was wondering if anyone else finds this inconvenient, and if you have found any clever workaround?

Answer 1

I don't have Leopard yet... kinda disappointing about the non-hierarchical stacks. But I would think you can work around this by creating aliases of your subfoldered apps.
Magnus Lewan wrote:
With Leopard, that way of launching an application is gone. Click on the Application folder in the Dock and you get a "Stack" and you have to click on the iWork folder which will open a Finder window, where you can click on the Pages icon - *+then click on the close button of the Finder window to get rid of the Desktop clutter+*.
On the Mac, option-double-clicking on something in the Finder will open the item and close the window automagically to reduce clutter.