[DM-MUG] upgrading to Leopard

[Stuart Thiessen]

The new dock does take some getting used to. I must not be using  
things the way you guys are because it doesn't seem to annoy me like  
it does you.

Stuart

On 31 Oct 2007, at 16:27 , Bryan Baker wrote:

> 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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