Failing Dock (was Re: Stacks - a part of the Finder or just the Dock?)

[Ashley Aitken]

On 20/06/2007, at 5:07 PM, LuKreme wrote:

> That said, they could handle it like tabs in Safari.  Disabled by  
> default.

Sure, that's what's fantastic about hierarchies, they can start of as  
simple lists ...

> What I find frustrating is that there are really no dock  
> REPLACEMENTS.  (All the functionality of the Dock.app and no more  
> Dock.app).  I mean, sure, it's Apple's fault for tying the Dock in  
> so tightly (it still runs the dashboard, right?), but still.  A  
> good dock replacement and a setting in dock.app's prefs to delay  
> how long before it appears would be oh, so helpful.

Ok, so you're trolling (me) now? ;-)

DragThing does about as much as can be done without Apple allowing  
further.

As I mentioned, I hide the Apple Dock hidden at the top of the screen  
so I still see bouncing icons and can even use the Dock if needed.

DragThing then provides all the docks I could need with just about  
every option you could want - of course, the Apple Dock is still  
running (but so what?).

The only issues I have (as I mentioned) are:

1.  It's less dynamic than Apple's dock - no bouncing icons, scaling  
icons, etc.

2.  It's less flashy than Apple's dock (especially the one coming in  
Leopard).

3.  Windows still minimise to the Apple Dock (ie they genie to there)

Apart from the it's incredibly flexible, allowing many different  
number and combination of different types of docks, and has its  
operation can be fined tuned with preferences etc.

But as you say there really are no dock REPLACEMENTS.  And that's  
probably the way Apple wants it to be.

Cheers,
Ashley.


PS Note that when the Dock is hidden at the top of the screen it is  
not made visible when you hit the top of the screen.  You need to  
move the mouse to the pixel below the menu.  This is good and bad -  
good that the Dock doesn't become visible every time you knock into  
the top of the screen, bad when you want to actually use the Dock.   
For the limited way I use it (as mentioned above, it is fine).