If anything, those numbers are conservative for a “power user”. There’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to. He wants to have his cake and eat it too it seems…ĭamn straight. He’s not complaining because you have to make the Dock reappear, he’s complaining that when it reappears, it’s not uncommon for the things that are on it to have moved around while it’s been gone as applications and documents have opened/closed/minimised. Sure, if you auto-hide the dock you’ll have to hunt for a second. I can’t say I’ve ever noticed because I don’t use the things, but if it’s true then it is – at the very least – a consistency problem.īecause he’s enumerating problems with the Dock, and that’s a problem with the Dock.Ĥ. I believe he’s complaining because icon “labels” apparently don’t carry over to that document being minimised to the Dock. This sort of thing kludges around a fundamental flaw, it doesn’t fix the problem. Since you can’t hide windows, only applications, minimising is a good way to temporarily get windows out of Expose’s scope.īut first you need a collection of suitable icons to change them to. The problem is it’s big and clumsy and none of the currently possible solutions remedy the problem without creating others that are at least as bad.Īs wonderful as Expose is, it does get a bit busy when there’s dozens/hundreds of windows open. And his supposedly being a UI genius doesn’t somehow turn his personal preferences into “fact”. He is unhappy that Apple didn’t design their task switcher with EXACTLY his preferences in mind so he says it “sucks”. Tog simply doesn’t want to use the alternatives. Works like a charm.Įveryone has preferences. It’s a small folder so the contents pop up instantly. Or you can do what I did: include the top 8-10 items in the dock and then create a folder with shortcuts to the lesser used (but still needed) programs and put it in the dock also (with a nice icon so I know what it is). Um, there are lots of shareware programs available that allow that sort of thing. So it’s the right size and if space is an issue you can hide it. Yes, you can set it much smaller, but then you make it progressivley more difficult to identify an icon without “scrubbing” the screen with your mouse to reveal its label I was pointing out how ludicrous it was to complain that the dock was too big when he already mentionsĪnd you have little choice but to hide itī) if it were smaller it wouldn’t be useful I could go on giving reasons, but I won’t.ĩ a) was what Tog said on his site. There ought to be a way to organize things into “sub-docks”. I rarely minimize documents, but I have 16 applications in my dock (all of which I use frequently, but not simultaneously). So I moved the dock to the left side of my screen, and now it’s usually out of the way… but sometimes it creeps in, and worse, Apple’s programming isn’t the greatest, so it doesn’t always slide all the way off the screen, and I have to waste time sliding the pointer left again & then right again. …especially when I’m trying to resize a window, or scroll down. This excessively-large target also ensures many mistakes, where people are simply sweeping the mouse too far while engaged in their application, suddenly triggering the hidden Dock. I used to keep my Dock hidden on the bottom, but then as he points out: WHO is it that wants to have one’s cake & eat it, too? □Īs for #3: I completely agree with Tog on this one. It says something about dj jedi jeff’s complaints, that his remedy for Tog complaint #9 is contradicted by his remedy for Tog complaint #4. He’s not an OS 9 devotee who hates OS X he’s THE MAN when it comes to UI design (even if I disagree with him sometimes myself). He’s just a whiny OS9 user that feels abandoned. Well, sure, if you try hard enough just about anything will suck. It’s like he’s trying hard to make the dock suck…. Most users won’t drag their document to the doc to begin with.Ĭonclusion: He hates the doc but can’t come up with anything better. I wouldn’t be using a Mac if it acted like OS9. He’s a “I liked OS9 and OS X is different” user. Hint: don’t minimize, use Expose instead.Ģ. Unless you put 10 programs in there and minimize 10 more windows it’s not going to be that big. The dock is only as big as you want it to be. It’s just a matter of what’s important to you… He wants to have his cake and eat it too it seems…ģ. So don’t hide it!! I run in 1152-864 and have more than enough screen space. He can have it both ways so why is he bitching?Ĥ. I prefer it on the dock because I auto-sort my desktop. ![]() There are programs that put a trash can on your desktop. Remedied by not minimizing your documents but rather using Expose.ħ. ![]() A) it takes up too much space but you can hide itī) if it were smaller (like the task bar) it would suck but it’s too bigĨ.
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