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

[Ashley Aitken]

Hi Phil (et al.),

On 21/06/2007, at 12:12 PM, Phil Larson wrote:

> On Jun 20, 2007, at 12:23 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote:
>> Perhaps having all the running apps and minimised windows  
>> themselves on every tab may be a better solution, but I think the  
>> separating them (logically or physically) from the tabs would be  
>> better.
>
> The Tiger Dock already has a separator where it looks like the dock  
> is split in two. The tab metaphor would work because visually it  
> would just be switching the piece on the left and the piece on the  
> right is disconnected so it remains when switching tabs.

Interesting, I was thinking that the tab metaphor applies mostly to  
the items on the right (excluding minimised windows and the trash).   
This is where I (at least) generally have lots of items, folders,  
etc, that I would like to organise under tabs.

But further, as I mentioned, I think the Dock is really three pieces,  
running applications on the left, minimised windows and Trash on the  
right, and all the other stuff (files, folders, applications not  
running, etc.) in the middle.

Making that separation more clear with two separators (instead of the  
current one) would allow the middle portion to (optionally) use tabs,  
and possibly the splitting of the dock into three pieces for  
relocation around the display.

Cheers,
Ashley.

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