[DM-MUG] upgrading to Leopard

[jim lagnese]

The shelf is hideous...


//On 10/31/07 5:58 PM, "Bryan Baker" <ka_klick at mac.com> wrote:

> 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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