[DM-MUG] upgrading to Leopard

[Bryan Baker]

Well, yes, that'll work for the look of the "shelf" and not having  
installed it myself, I'll save judgement on that. I was offering a  
solution for the fact that "Stacks" just put the first sorted icon on  
the top of a messy stack of icons - some of us use folders (esp the  
Applications folder) as a launcher  - in 10.4 right/cntrl/long  
clicking resulted in a hierarchical menu of the contents - worked  
great, though a bit slow to render first time in a day.

On Oct 31, 2007, at 4:43 PM, jim lagnese wrote:
> I just did a "defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES"  
> and then
> did a killall Dock at the CLI. :)
>
>
> //On 10/31/07 4:27 PM, "Bryan Baker" <ka_klick at mac.com> 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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