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Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock

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In article <jollyroger-AD024C.16093424102013@news.individual.net>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> In article <jollyroger-F945C4.16083224102013@news.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> > In article <bct8kbFouhpU1@mid.individual.net>,
> >  TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > As long as I can remember the line in Apple's dock which separates 
> > > applications from documents disagrees with the expected perspective 
> > > rules; that all lines that are parallel should lead to a common 
> > > vanishing point. If one draws a line whicch parallels each of the two 
> > > edges of the dock the lines will intersect somewhere above the dock. If 
> > > one were to then draw a line from the separator line in the dock that 
> > > line should also go to the same intersection. However as the count of 
> > > the icons to each side of the separator line increasingly differe in 
> > > count the aforementioned line misses the intersecion by an increasing 
> > > amount. Because of this anomaly I have for a long time been using 
> > > Docker to display the dock in a non perspective manner so to avoid this 
> > > disturbing (at least to me) appearance. However, at least as of now 
> > > Docker is not available for Mavericks. I will be having a visit to the 
> > > Genius Bar tomorrow and will see what kind of reaction I get. I'll post 
> > > what happens.
> > 
> > Have you tried?:
> > 
> > defaults read com.apple.dock no-glass
> > 
> > defaults read com.apple.dock no-glass -float 1
> 
> Oops, that last line should read:
> 
> defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -float 1

Even easier, just set the Preference option to

    - auto-hide the Dock and you'll only see it when you need to use it

and / or

    - set the Dock size to very small and you'll barely notice it
      isn't "correct"

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Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2013-10-24 13:52 -0500
  Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2013-10-24 14:05 -0600
  Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-25 09:13 +1300
  Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-24 17:24 -0400
    Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2013-10-24 20:34 -0500
      Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-25 05:10 +0000
        Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2013-10-24 22:43 -0700
      Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Maurizio Loreti <mlo@foobar.it> - 2013-10-25 08:33 +0200
      Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-25 16:36 -0400
    Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Matthew Lybanon <lybanon@earthlink.net> - 2013-10-25 09:14 -0500
      Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-25 16:41 -0400
  Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-24 16:08 -0700
    Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-24 16:09 -0700
      Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-25 19:40 +1300
      Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2013-10-31 12:34 -0700
  Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-25 06:13 +0000
  Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Doc O'Leary <droleary@6usenet2013.subsume.com> - 2013-10-25 11:13 -0500
    Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2013-10-25 14:34 -0500
      Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-25 20:27 +0000
    Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-10-25 15:45 -0400
      Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-26 10:19 +1300
        Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Doc O'Leary <droleary@6usenet2013.subsume.com> - 2013-10-26 11:58 -0500
          Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-27 10:03 +1300
      Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Doc O'Leary <droleary@6usenet2013.subsume.com> - 2013-10-26 11:44 -0500
        Re: Please Apple - Fix the Perspective in the Dock Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-27 10:04 +1300

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