Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.vt.edu!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Bread Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Losing my religion(?) Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 13:49:10 -0700 Organization: lined up neatly Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <120820121955223103%star@sky.net> <5028a772$0$1490$c3e8da3$1cbc7475@news.astraweb.com> <502a8d39$0$61503$c3e8da3$38634283@news.astraweb.com> <140820121443399468%nospam@nospam.invalid> <7hivf9-bvu2.ln1@news1.chingola.ch> <0ukvf9-bvu2.ln1@news1.chingola.ch> <5eKdnRTVjJeEMrPNnZ2dnUVZ_gqdnZ2d@giganews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1345322953 5486 127.0.0.1 (18 Aug 2012 20:49:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 20:49:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Unison/2.1.9 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:29686 On 2012-08-18 19:46:42 +0000, TaliesinSoft said: > On 2012-08-18 17:19:27 +0000, Alan Browne said: > >> While the 3-D dock may be hideous to you, to me it's fine and the 2-D >> dock is pretty damned ugly. > > 'Tis all in the mind of the beholder! I'm one who prefers simplicity > and in that regard I have used an applet, Docker, which allowed me to > place a 2-D dock in the bottom center of my screen. Docker also allowed > me to simplify the separator line between applications and documents. Truth is that to me it's only mostly hideous. The rest of my distaste for the 3D dock is that it's a lot less obvious which apps are running (the little indicator is very much less visible in 3D mode). This was a bigger deal to me before I stripped nearly everything out of the dock except for the 5 or so apps that I use constantly. Anything else, if it's in the dock, it's running. Simple as that. But I still think the faux 3D thing is pretty damned ugly. Actually, the visual notion of the dock itself - identifying apps by icon without text - is kind of halfassed anyway. At a glance, approximately half the icons on my dock just look like circles, some of them very similar in coloration, too (App Store, Safari, QuickTime, 1Password). Text might not be as pretty, but to me, especially since text can be easily sorted, it's much more practical. An option to replace the dock's icons with text, or to add names, and to always have it sorted alphabetically, would be pretty slick. Anyway, that's all just idle semi-ranting. I'm just glad that I do have an alternative to the 3D dock and that it was easy enough to set up. I don't mind if other folks like it.