[DM-MUG] upgrading to Leopard

[Bryan Baker]

Here's an idea I've had since reading several negative reviews of  
what the new dock and desktop do to folders:

Create a folder inside the folder you put in the dock, name it the  
same as the folder it's in, except add something that sorts higher,  
like a "*" to the beginning. You could maybe even use a custom Icon  
if they haven't broken the basic drag/paste operation in get info.  
Then, that folder should be on top of the stack, no? It might still  
have a garbled mess of stuff below it (one reason to consider a  
custom icon) but it'll be the name of the folder and put you back in  
control (a bit).

I haven't upgraded anything yet, though waiting on CDW to deliver a  
shiny new Xserve which I'll upgrade asap w/ Leopard, since they won't  
be shipping Leopard imaged servers for  a while (my rep said Jan).  
I'll just have Apple ship me the upgrade. This'll be an interesting  
transition since I'll be moving from a 10.3.x based xserve to a 10.5.x

Also going to upgrade the work laptop - will probably repeat the way  
I upgraded it last time - image to FW drive, boot from FW to test, do  
a wipe and install on the machine, the use the migration assistant -  
worked nicely from 10.3 - 10.4 - hope I don't have to go through the  
agony of the first spotlight index again - that took hours.


On Oct 29, 2007, at 11:23 PM, Darcy Baston wrote:
> The new dock is horrible. I don't like it and am using the more  
> traditional view by either putting on the left, or playing with  
> 'write default' at the command line.
>
> I don't like how when you used to just see a folder's icon when you  
> dragged it to the dock, it now renders a stack of icons indicating  
> its content. If you only have one file in a folder you drag to it,  
> it shows the icon of that one file instead of the folder. That's  
> just silly and is making me go back to DragThing for custom icon  
> drop zones.
>

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