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1 year ago
in Cosmetic Leopard Desktop Adjustments: Dock, Menu Bar, Stacks on Webomatica
The benefit of making a few stacks with shortcuts is that you can reduce the clutter on the dock by limiting the number of icons that normally show. You essentially categorize your dock apps into logical groups that make sense in your workflow.
The drawback with my approach is that it takes two clicks to get to the program you want to launch instead of just one.
It's a trade-off either way. The thing that would make it better is if Apple would make a new option when you right-click on a stack that allows you to use the stack's folder icon instead of the icon of some item inside the stack itself.
The overlapping icons are just nonsense that they should get rid of.
The drawback with my approach is that it takes two clicks to get to the program you want to launch instead of just one.
It's a trade-off either way. The thing that would make it better is if Apple would make a new option when you right-click on a stack that allows you to use the stack's folder icon instead of the icon of some item inside the stack itself.
The overlapping icons are just nonsense that they should get rid of.
1 year ago
in Cosmetic Leopard Desktop Adjustments: Dock, Menu Bar, Stacks on Webomatica
I also detest the way the icons in a stack overlay each other. However, in your kludge approach, when the stack is expanded, you have an item labeled "a" for the empty folder displayed in your stack. I have come up with another kludge that may be (a little) better than the one you suggested.
1- First, create a new folder for each of the stacks you wish to create. For example, I have one for CS3, another for Productivity Apps, etc. I put all of these folders inside another folder called "Dock Shortcut Stacks" inside my user folder to keep them neat and tidy.
2 - Inside each of the new stack folders, create a shortcut for each application you want to put in that stack. For example, my CS3 "stack folder" contains shortcuts for Photoshop, Bridge, Flash, etc. (tip: dragging an app into your stack folder while pressing Command-Option creates a shortcut of the app).
3 - Select the application shortcut whose icon you want to be the topmost icon for the stack and rename it by inserting a blank space in front of its name. For example, I wanted my CS3 stack to show the Photoshop icon on top, so I renamed the Photoshop shortcut to " Photoshop" (note: don't include the quotation marks. I only put them here to show the space prior to the name.
4 - Drag each stack folder onto the dock and make sure the stack is sorted by name. The shortcut with the space in front of its name will be the topmost icon.
Note that this still doesn't get rid of the problem of other icons peeking through from behind your topmost icon. If anyone comes up with a better approach, I'd like to know.
Cheers.
1- First, create a new folder for each of the stacks you wish to create. For example, I have one for CS3, another for Productivity Apps, etc. I put all of these folders inside another folder called "Dock Shortcut Stacks" inside my user folder to keep them neat and tidy.
2 - Inside each of the new stack folders, create a shortcut for each application you want to put in that stack. For example, my CS3 "stack folder" contains shortcuts for Photoshop, Bridge, Flash, etc. (tip: dragging an app into your stack folder while pressing Command-Option creates a shortcut of the app).
3 - Select the application shortcut whose icon you want to be the topmost icon for the stack and rename it by inserting a blank space in front of its name. For example, I wanted my CS3 stack to show the Photoshop icon on top, so I renamed the Photoshop shortcut to " Photoshop" (note: don't include the quotation marks. I only put them here to show the space prior to the name.
4 - Drag each stack folder onto the dock and make sure the stack is sorted by name. The shortcut with the space in front of its name will be the topmost icon.
Note that this still doesn't get rid of the problem of other icons peeking through from behind your topmost icon. If anyone comes up with a better approach, I'd like to know.
Cheers.