Poll:OS X Dock Location?

[MacRumors]

Vote: Poll:OS X Dock Location? (http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=87&ref=forums.macrumors.com)

[vniow]

Bottom.
Feels wierd on the sides.

If I could put it on top I would, but that menu bar thingie would have to go somewhere though....

[springscansing]

Who puts it on the right? Doesn't that screw up the icons kinda?

[sparkleytone]

bottom right.

best place for me.

[pimentoLoaf]

Left side is so... so... Windows. :eek:

Have to flip it off whenever I use an astronomy program called Skychart 3, as the windows for that program use every bit of screen real estate.

[beatle888]

i put it on the right.

[blackpeter]

Apple has properly trained me. I too feel weird with the dock anywhere but on the bottom.

[teabgs]

SO, I had to put the "or other" down because Mine is on the Top Right....

[Beej]

On the right, pinned to the bottom. Can't stand it on the bottom. It's also borderless and without a background. Just works best for me that way.

springscansing - why would having it on the right 'screw up the icons kinda'? They just bounce sideways rather than up and down if that's what you're getting at...

[AmbitiousLemon]

Originally posted by Beej
springscansing - why would having it on the right 'screw up the icons kinda'? They just bounce sideways rather than up and down if that's what you're getting at...

i think he means the desktop icons.

i used to keep mine on the right. ive tried the top and bottom. the top would probably be best but windows pop up behind it and you cant move them without moving the dock.

the right was good because it places the trash in the bottom right corner where we are used to it.

i like to have my dock and adium contact list visible at all times so the sides make the most sense. the buddy list on the left with the dock just below it (pinned to the bottom and of course transparent). all my application windows then take up the whole screen minus the left couple of centimeters. if the dock was on the bottom i would lose too much vertical space which is far more important than horizontal space (especially for web browsing).

icant really recall why i moved it to the left. the left always felt so windows like and anti -intuitive. but i think it was the desktop icons (though i usually keep the desktop empty) they wouldnt position themselves properly with a right handed dock.

[thejll]

I put mine on the right. I figured it would be best on the side, especially since I have a PowerBook G4 and real estate to the sides is more abundant that up and down.

[edesignuk]

I have mine on the left hand side of my left screen, leaving the right screen nice a tidy :)

[jg3]

And small. That way it doesn't interfere with icons on the desktop much. You'd think Apple would make the desktop Respect The Dock... oh well, it works fine for me.

[medea]

I prefer it either on the left or the bottom, and it's usually on the left, gives you more free space towards the right and the bottom. And it doesnt really remind me of windows either, having it on the bottom did.....

[uhlawboi80]

well it was on the bttm forever but i discovered that on my TiBook its just easier to not have it keep popping up when i am doing things if its on the left. dont have enough up down space.

and whats with saying on the left its so windows? windows puts it on the bttm....though you can move it just like in OSX...oh well

[CountZero]

I have mine in bottom right, with Proteus (IM client) on the top right. I don't have problem with icons as I don't have ANY icons on the desktop:) When I do have network drive connected and it is on the desktop, I just collapse the Proteus window (I use WindowShade X) and I can access the icon anyway. Works great with my widescreen TiBook:) If only I can hack the dock so it doesn't magnifies past the bottom of the screen, i.e. the Trash icon 'stick' to the bottom and the dock expands upward only. Anyone knows how to do this?

[Billicus]

Wasn't there an app to put it on the top, beneath the menu bar... was it TinkerTool?

[job]

Middle right.

As small as it can go.

No icons on the desktop. Not even a HDD icon.

Clean. Beautiful.

[buffsldr]

Its got to be on the middle right for me. Out of the way and just waiting for me.

[Baffles]

Bottom center.

[MacGromit]

Who puts it on the right? Doesn't that screw up the icons kinda?

I do. Closest to the mouse hand. It's a pain since I have it on hidden mode and it's annoying to get too close when I'm trying to scroll down.

But I have more real estate east-west than north-south and like an earlier poster said... left is too Windows.

:apple::D:apple:

[Watabou]

Dang this topic was made in 2002. That was in puma or jaguar days I think lol.

But whatever. I put mine on the bottom.

[vandozza]

bottom centre, and made 2D using OnyX. (Leopard)

[motulist]

Wow! A 6 year old thread has been revived! That has to be a record!

[techfreak85]

arnt there only 3 locations? Bottom, left, and right? its all centered. whats wit this top right and bottom left stuff?

[vandozza]

arnt there only 3 locations? Bottom, left, and right? its all centered. whats wit this top right and bottom left stuff?

you can use apps like onyx (and probably many others) to change the default options. you can have top/bottom and left/right as options as well.

so top left, bottom right etc are all possible :)

i think it's even possible to have the dock at the top with some apps.

[messedkid]

For awhile, I had it set to the left side, but not centered. It was in the bottom/left corner.

I also did not have any apps in the Dock, apart from Finder, Dashboard and Trash. I used quicksilver to launch all apps and all the dock was for was to show what apps are up and running. Had the dock scaled down too, and had my adium contact list right above it...but then if alot of people were online, and I had quite a few apps/documents open at once, they would overlap..and I didn't like that.

I'm back to the default dock setting now. :) Bottom + Centered.

[mckyvlle]

I put mine on the bottom, pinned to the right. It's usually hiding though. This puts the Trash/Eject icon at the (mostly) correct place, and doesn't move about depending on the number of items in the Dock.

[Andrew Henry]

On the right side, I can't stand it on the bottom on my MBP, because my fingers block the view while I'm typing, while laying down that is. But I've grown to prefer it on the right anyhow, much easier for me.

And I don't know who even needs the desktop, I use spaces and everything is full screen that I use on the spaces, sometimes I forget there is even a desktop. :p

[a104375]

I can only ever put it on the bottom, it just feels wrong when its on the sides..
GO BOTTOM DOCK PEOPLE!!!!:D

[messedkid]

I can only ever put it on the bottom, it just feels wrong when its on the sides..
GO BOTTOM DOCK PEOPLE!!!!:D

/cheer!!

When I first got my macbook (i believe it was 10.4.2 at the time) the dock HAD to be the exact width as the hinge of the monitor. If I had to open another item, another document or added a new app to my dock, I would resize the dock to match the hinge width. :cool:


Then I got into a phase where I would use the college library iMacs...which had the dock littered with every app imaginable. iLike 06, iWork, CS2, Office 2004. 5 different browsers, 3 different IM clients. Media players out the ying-yang. It was useless to have so many of the same type of application, but I liked the "full" look. So I went to my mac and added every app I had installed to my dock. So I had quick access to all apps. :D

*sigh*

such a mess when I think about it now. Now I only have about 5-6 apps on the dock at all times, 2 stacks (downloads and documents) and use quicksilver. I also don't like using my mouse, and try to use my trackpad as little as possible. Using an app launcher and keyboard shortcuts is so much faster. (once you get the hang of it of course. :P

[kflook]

When I first got my macbook (i believe it was 10.4.2 at the time) the dock HAD to be the exact width as the hinge of the monitor.

Haha...I did the same thing with my powerbook when I first bought it. :cool:

[m1stake]

Bottom.

[Nadav]

Middle right.

As small as it can go.

No icons on the desktop. Not even a HDD icon.

Clean. Beautiful.

How do you get rid of the HDD icon?

[tyr2]

How do you get rid of the HDD icon?

Finder / Preferences / General / 'Show these items on the desktop'

[Beric]

Nice OLD (6 years) topic!

Anyway, the bottom for me, the only acceptable place to put it. And I automatically have to hide the dock until I move my mouse down there. Keeps it out of the way.

[thenetstud]

Definitely on the bottom.

[bluekatt]

im always one for some thread necromancy though this is the first time i have seen the shambeling corpse of a 6 year old thread
never the less

at the bottom of the screen
always visible
where it belongs

[tsice19]

I use it at the bottom... sometimes I'll move it for an oddball program though, if it needs lots of space.

[Jozone]

Bottom with no magnification and no hiding!

[kabunaru]

My Macbook: Dock on the Left with transparent menubar
My iMac: Dock on the bottom (3D) with no transparent menubar.

[steve_hill4]

Bottom, with no hiding and minimal magnification (I like my icons to 'twitch' as I hover over them). Customised to a transparent glass shelf too, so they really look like they're floating, but still being reflected onto nothingness too.

[thejadedmonkey]

Right visible no magnification

OR

Bottom hidden magnification

[thepreludedude]

bottom

i lol'd when i read...bottom top, right or left. i guess i have a dirty mind.

[alphaod]

I use it on the bottom, but if it were me, I'd forgo the whole dock. Quicksilver FTW!

[KBK]

Dock on the bottom, icons on the right. :cool:

[Drumjim85]

everyone at my work has it on the right (and auto-hide) because we use the bottom of the screen a lot and it just got in the way

[MichaelMidnight]

I've mostly had it on the bottom but I've had it on the left before. I'm contemplating which one makes for better productivity on my Macbook.

[iMacmatician]

Bottom at 48 pixels.

[omega21]

Left. It balances the icons on the right. :)

[dontwalkhand]

Bottom visible with magnification. :apple::apple:

[Quillz]

Usually the bottom center, but sometimes the bottom right so that the Trash can is static in the bottom right corner, where it used to be placed in the classic Mac OS. (Which I never used.)

[okrelayer]

I dont think i can have it anywhere but on the bottom. I typically have my adium buddylist on the left handside, safari window in the middle, and Instant message box on the right handside.

I might give dock position on the left a shot, i would like the added space its giving me, but i would be screwing my self with finding a place for my buddylist!

[FSBW21086]

bottom righht!

[wordmunger]

MBA: Right. The bottom takes up too much screen real estate, and the left interferes with the control panels in many apps.

iMac: Bottom. I have a two-screen setup and the right-side location is too far away from everything else.

This thread is ancient!

[sra. Aguirre]

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bottom for me......sideways looks weird, but maybe because Apple never uses it sideways in their images online....and am just not used to that placement

[MacGeekDC]

bottom

[Mellieko]

The bottom center, though I'd like to try it out on the right or left sometime. Not now though, it just feels.. weird and out of place to have it anywhere else.

[sunfast]

Bottom centre, always kept it there

[Macsta]

Bottom on my iMac and on the left on my MacBook

[JMN357]

Bottom, it's awkward on the sides.
Also, it's got to have a couple of Candybar icon mods.
(My Adium icon is now that adorable robot "Eve" from the movie "Wall-E")

[dwl017]

OMG! :eek:

Dec 8, 2002, 11:30 PM

It must really be slow around here :p

[someone28624]

Bottom. This thread encouraged me to try the left. No likey. My good friend refuses to put it anywhere except left.

[cheekybobcat]

Left, hidden with magnification. I dislike having it on the bottom now...
Seems more convenient for me...

[keys]

on the 2nd (right) cinema display Right.. hidden

on the bottom obstructs final cut timeline / toolbars for me.

[sangosimo]

default.

[marvel2]

I tried using it on the sides, it felt too weird.

[cbrain]

I have mine on the bottom.

[costabunny]

Botom on the Pro (too many screens to put on one side) ... and at th left side (autohide) on the Air

[jstanier]

Always, always bottom center. :)

[Guy...]

When i first got a mac with the docking station, it was always on the right. Now it's always bottom, so apple has brainwashed me... lol


http://images.macrumors.com/vb/images/smilies/blackapple.gif

[RRutter]

I have my dock at the left. :)

[dukebound85]

just switched to left as my vertical space is more limited compared to my horizontal

makes. logical. sense. i dont know why i didnt do it before. maybe beause thats how apple had it by defualt so i thought it was the best way

[chrisjarmstrong]

I have always preferred my dock to be on the bottom of the screen. I have tried it on the left and right but it doesn't work for me and it doesn't look as nice.

[Sonicjay]

I recently switched from bottom to left, and I really like it

[CrackedButter]

Bottom right without the shelf and small.

[costabunny]

I want it on a long thin touchscreen mounted on the top of my keyboard - Someone invent that please????

:p

[RRutter]

I want it on a long thin touchscreen mounted on the top of my keyboard - Someone invent that please????

:p

That would be so annoying having to move your cursor up to the top of your computer. Especially when you're so used to going to the bottom/left/right.

[Shoeguy]

MacBook right side
eMac bottom center
ibook bottom center
Centris no dock, System 9

[SnowLeopard2008]

My dock is on the bottom centered, default location; set to auto-hide and magnification. It looks kinda cool to me. :D

[RRutter]

My dock is on the bottom centered, default location; set to auto-hide and magnification. It looks kinda cool to me. :D

Ewww. I hate auto-hide, and too much magnification. I have very small magnification. But I at least need some, or I like won't be able to read it. ;)

[dmr727]

Mine hides on the bottom.

[WPB2]

Trying to get this mac glass trackpad to work properly

[Aniki]

Bottom, preferably. Left sometimes.

[Apple Ink]

Bottom. Hidden while using Aperture or Ps! Magnification on to assist in focussing!

[RRutter]

Bottom. Hidden while using Aperture or Ps! Magnification on to assist in focussing!

Ew I don't like Aperture.

[Wireless Buddy]

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Bottom center, set to always show, relatively small, magnify fully.

I don't have an option to pin the dock to a place other than center. Maybe it isn't supported in Tiger??

[ShiggyMiyamoto]

I have my dock on my MacBook (and my iBook before it) always on the bottom. My parents have it on the bottom, as does my brother, but he's got it hidden. None of us use magnification. Whenever I'm at an  store that has that on (which is most) I turn it off. It annoys me. lol

[EricJD]

Mine is simply on the bottom.

[thomahawk]

bottom..
i cant imagine putting it on other sides (too wierd for me)

[bengal85]

Bottom its the most out of the way that way

I think and it looks odd on either side and the finder bar in on top

[RRutter]

Bottom center, set to always show, relatively small, magnify fully.

I don't have an option to pin the dock to a place other than center. Maybe it isn't supported in Tiger??

Ew I hate magnify fully. And mine always has to be at it's full size and always there, not disappearing, or I'll flip.

[Will_reed]

I put mine on the bottom and hide it during pro apps like FCP and soundtrack pro.

[pit29]

Bottom, hidden, with modest magnification.

[Haoshiro]

I just moved mine from the bottom to the left, and I'm liking it much better.

With these widescreen displays, I have plenty of horizontal space but much less vertical, so it just makes a lot more sense on the left to me.

Try it, you might discover its better for you too! :D

[ArtOfWarfare]

bottom, hiding, no magnification.

My dock only has a few applications. Unlike some people, I recognize the fact that I don't use 50 different applications every day. My dock has:

Finder
Safari
Art Of Illusion (A free 3D art and animation program... I use it a few times a week.)
Pages
Keynote
Numbers (Admittedly, I don't use this very often, but it wouldn't be right to have Pages and Keynote by themselves.)
iTunes
iMovie HD (Not really sure why now that I think about it...)
Garage Band (Yeah... maybe I aught to remove these...)
EyeTV Lite (A keeper. I use it several times a week to record various shows on Fox.)
System Preferences (Mmmm... I havn't changed anything in so long... I jsut keep it there I guess so my dock can look complete.)
Stickies (I have lots of stickies that I jot the random applications ideas I have throughout the day... most will never see the light of day though...)

Application Stack (Not really my application folder... this contains the 20 or so applications that I use regularly but not daily... like Xcode, Interface Builder, Taco HTML, iWeb, Tinker Tools, Text Edit, Skype, Audio Hijack, Grapher, Photo Booth, Mail...)

Game Stack (Short cuts to all the games on my computer... WarCraft III, StarCraft, Quakes I-IV, Doom 1-3, WingNuts 2, and DarwiinRemote... admittedly not a game but I like playing StarCraft/WarCraft III using a wiimote.)

Homework Stack (All my homework, notes, projects, etc., from school sorted by year/class in a hierarchy view.)

Programming Stack (All my programming projects, sorted by platform (Mac OS X, Touch OS X, or other,) and actual project.)

Download Stack (Almost nothing... everything gets sorted almost instantly... most of it goes in the trash.)

What was the point of me saying all that? Oh, right, no magnification is necessary. Everything is so organized, my dock isn't crowded, I don't need the magnification.

[G-Com]

Bottom, magnification on.

[autobotjones]

for me it has to be the bottom

[Balty]

Bottom; centered. Not too big.
Hidden.
Magnification; miniscule but still there.

[themacman112]

on the left

[hootywho]

I put mine on the bottom and made it really small

[Ropie]

On my MBP running Tiger, really small and on the left. Makes sense to me as I can open up my docked Applications folder as a list and it's highlighted in the middle to begin with, rather than the bottom as it is when you have the dock on the bottom of the screen. Saves those precious microseconds :D

[troublesomekila]

I keep mines on the bottom I did try it on the left but it felt to weird

[andyblila]

Bottom.

[Jeffrosproto]

Bottom. Set to the minimum size with some magnification.

Finder, Dashboard, Mail, Firefox, Skype, iChat, iTunes, Photoshop, Word, Coda, Remote Desktop Connection | Apps Stack, Documents Stack, Downloads Stack, Recycle Bin

[RoboCop1]

Bottom, Bottom, Bottom. It feels weird to put it anywhere else.

[kabunaru]

Bottom, Bottom, Bottom. It feels weird to put it anywhere else.

Same here. I do not know why.

[cMacSW]

Right

[mr.light]

On the bottom. I also tried the left but could not get used to it. It is set to small with magnification on.

[Mjmar]

Hiding on the bottom. I don't see the need to always have the dock visible.

[mknawabi]

Bottom :)

[Apple Ink]

Tried left for a week.... didnt work out so bottom it is again!

[jlwillia]

Hiding on the right....for now.

I like to switch it from right and bottom depending on the picture set as my wallpaper. It's always hidden though, and never on the left. Don't ask me about the left thing. I don't even know why, but I don't like it on the left...

[Cap41]

I'm a bottom!

[QueenZ]

Bottom. It really feels weird on the sides.. :D But i know some people like it that way ;)

[jrrdnx]

Bottom

[yoppie]

Bottom. I tried to use it on the side but I kept looking down to see when an item was finished downloading (bouncing stack).

[three]

My dock is on the bottom, it has the regular size.

[QueenZ]

I've seen people putting their docs in the right bottom corner but i still don't know how that's possible? third party software?

[kunze50]

With OnyX or terminal commands you can have it aligned on either the left or right, so I have my dock 2D on the left. It has been that way for a year and I still like this location best.

[IIIUUU]

Now that is a lot of brass air fittings http://www.liangdianup.com/subpages/airfitting_1.htm there is just about every type
of air fitting that you could want. Wholesale prices too. I guess these could be used as small water pipe fitting also. I
used some of the parts to make my babington wvo bu

[EchohcE]

I tried the bottom, but it felt weird. Left feels most intuitive for me.

[Beric]

The bottom, and hidden. Don't like to waste screen real estate.

[nikuailewokuail]

Has anyone bought this type of sling shot before that holds the amo in the handle? http://www.liangdianup.com/sporting_1.htm
this company has free shipping to anywhere in the world and they guarantee delivery to Australia. I heard that sling shots
are ok to sell in Australia as long as you say they are being used to toss bait in the water when you go fishing, any truth
to thatone?

[grull27]

Bottom

[Str8edgepunker]

I've tried right and left, but I always end up at the bottom. It just feels good. :D

[rhett7660]

Bottom........

[puke]

Bottom ofcourse.

[Pigumon]

Left interferes with the toolbars in every Adobe app, right interferes with palettes and scroll bars, so bottom and hidden seems to cause the least amount of damage for me.

Still, bottom is the hardest to get to since your wrist can flick to the left, top, and right easily, bottom is a bit harder and usually requires at least two wrist flicks with a mouse pick-up in between. :p

[NoSmokingBandit]

My dock is on the left. On a widescreen monitor it makes more sense to take away horizontal screen real estate instead of making your screen even shorter and cutting down on the viewing area for websites.

[iRebecca27]

had it on bottom but decided to mix things up a bit when i got the Macbook aluminum

[aznguyen316]

right side. might try hiding it now too to see how I like it.

[alphaod]

Recently (AKA last week), I moved my dock to the left and now I hide it.

[Elbert C]

Mines on the left side.

[gadgetdad]

Another vote for the bottom. Tried it on the right and all it did was make the bottom look weird.

[wawanarchist]

Left and hidden, I bought my first powerbook used and thats where it was, so thats how I got used to it... But even when I tried it on the bottom I still hid it, it takes up so much room on a 15" screen if you don't

[keekl]

bottom, and I didn't care for the Leopard 3D look so I have it set with the Tiger appearance.

[NC MacGuy]

Right is the only right place on my laptops.:) Tried it all places and it interferes the least. Especially w. scroll gestures.

Left when using an external monitor or larger display.

[hhlee]

tried it all but i'm just a bottom kinda guy (and hidden).

[zap2]

bottom, no hidden for me


Anything else seems weird....but this is just the way I've been run mine for so long

[ChrisN]

I have it on hte right and I don't like it but I also have it on the bottom on my laptop.

ChrisN

[SFStateStudent]

MacBook Air = Bottom & Hidden w/magnification ON
MacBook Pro = Bottom & Hidden w/magnification ON
Mac Pro = Bottom & Displayed w/magnification ON
:cool:

[MacsBestFriend]

Moms iMac:
Bottom,displayed/no magnification
When I get my MB:
Left, displayed/magnification

[macfan19803]

It's where the Dock is destined to be.

But I always wanted to put it on the left while I had the Windows Taskbar at the bottom when running VMWare or Parallels. Didn't work too well, though.

[numbersyx]

Bottom centre visible but small icons with max magnification

[heavymetal4god]

Bottom, and not hidden. I like having a small spot to raise the whole window up a little.

[lamadude]

2D dock, Bottom, Hidden, No magnification

[heavymetal4god]

2D dock, Bottom, Hidden, No magnification

Totally with you on the 2D dock.

[leishan]

Bottom just feels right...

[jive turkey]

Right, anchored to the top, only showing opened apps and a few stacks (downloads, favorites, recently opened)

[rez7]

Looks better on the bottom but kept trying it on the right until I got addicted to the extra vertical real estate and then I couldn't go back - so middle right, visible, almost smallest size icons with magnification and genie effect.

[Mackan]

On the right side. Having it on the bottom on a MacBook with 1280x800 resolution will reduce vertical space to almost nothing... which is extremely annoying.

[cathyy]

Left side is so... so... Windows. :eek:



But I have more real estate east-west than north-south and like an earlier poster said... left is too Windows.

I know I'm a little bit late, but can someone explain to me why on earth would the dock on the left remind you of Windows?


I prefer it either on the left or the bottom, and it's usually on the left, gives you more free space towards the right and the bottom. And it doesnt really remind me of windows either, having it on the bottom did.....

Or, why should the dock on the bottom remind you of Windows either? I mean, isn't the default placement for the dock at the bottom anyway?

[rekhyt]

Bottom or hidden at the bottom. The only way to go for me. :)

[doctoree]

To save mouse travel distance* and screen space: Left and hidden.

*On OSX all the buttons and menues are on the very top of the screen. So having the dock on the left is the nearest possible location

Additionally it's worth to note that I barely use it, as a pro user I prefer Quicksilver instead.