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What's on Your Dock? | |
| Subject: | Dock Luddites... all of you | |
| Date: | 2003-10-01 18:04:59 | |
| From: | anonymous2 | |
| When I first started using OS X, I hated the dock with a passion, but I told myself that Apple had always shown excellent judgment in their decisions with regard to user interface in the past and that I should at least give it a couple weeks to see if my work habits didn't reshape themselves around OS X's approach. Honestly, I didn't think it would happen, but at one point it all sort of clicked and I find the dock to be an elegant replacement for the application switcher, the launcher and the Apple menu. Do I think it's perfect? No. Not even close. I especially wish Apple would allow folders to act as popup menus where you click and the contents menu immediately pops up intead of opening the folder and I wish I could turn off the icon displays in those same menus to speed up displaying them on screen. Beyond that, I have almost no problems with the dock. But then, I gave it a fair shot. Maybe some of you need to let go of the old way of doing things and give it a fair shot too. | ||
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Dock Luddites... all of you
2003-10-03 11:42:58 anonymous2 [View]
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Dock Luddites... all of you
2003-10-06 13:58:29 anonymous2 [View]
"All you have to do is hold down the mouse button when clicking on the folder in your dock, and a menu will pop up"
Thanks, but I know about that. I wasn't clear enough. I meant that there should be a way to designate a folder as a pop-up menu so you don't have to control+click on it or click and hold. It would be really a great convenience to those of us who use many dock folders to be able to specify that a folder's default action with a single click is to pop up its menu instead of opening it in the Finder. It would be faster and more convenient. It might sound whiny, but if you're like me and access lots of stuff via dock folders, it can grate on your nerves a little that you always have to sit and wait for the menu to show up, and that wait is made worse on slower machines where the dock has to build the menu and icons first (thus my other comment about being able to shut off icon display in dock menus.) -
One solution
2003-10-09 21:17:14 anonymous2 [View]
Use a multi-button mouse. If you right-click on a folder in the Dock, it'll pop up right away. It's the same as Control-clicking, but with one hand.
All you have to do is hold down the mouse button when clicking on the folder in your dock, and a menu will pop up that allows you to run stuff without having to open the window. There are a lot of things in OS X that Apple has thought of...it's just a matter of finding out what they are and where they're at. :)