Forgoing the dock

[Morgan Mac]

I'm going to propose a problem. I know it can be done, but may take a lot of work, and be very difficult. Any help is appreciated.

Step1. Completely remove the dock.
Step2. Edit the Finder menu, to add a drop-down menu for Applications.
Step3. Also add a drop-down for trash.

This radical idea would be very useful. I have no use for the dock. It's distracting to me, and takes up screen-space. I switch applications using command-tab.

 

[w0lf]

Why not just turn on auto dock hiding???

 

[benwiggy]

I know it can be done, but may take a lot of work, and be very difficult.

Well, nothing is impossible, but the Dock is rather hard-wired into the soul of OS X. Removing it would require tearing a lot of things down and rebuilding them.

A surprising number of other OS X features are built-in to Dock.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Dock became increasingly vestigial in future versions of OS X, eventually being removed altogether in favour of LaunchPad etc.

If you want a menu for your Applications folder, I can recommend Xmenu, which puts little menulets into your menubar for a number of things, including that.