It's sad that Apple has spoiled people so much. If Apple never showed the preview and the only way to create a stack was to have your apps reside in folders nobody would say a word.
My gosh, people spend so much time downloading and creating haxies to change the OS look and how it works and we spend time lots of time customizing our Macs.
Why do we have to be so lazy about creating a folder that takes all of under 2 seconds and dragging anything you want in it and then dragging it to the dock to create a stack? It's not like you're gonna have a million stacks in the dock that would take hours to set up. You're generally gonna have 3-5 stacks in the dock. What is that, 5 minutes to create?
One extra step that's easier than pressing the power button on your computer. Yes it was presented differently but that's the reality of electronics, some things get changed before releasing to the public.
The Stacks video gets talked about a lot on the forums but nobody seems to remember (or should I say selective memory) that Apple put in small print "Leopard features are subject to change upon release".
Some things don't work out well and it's best to remove them rather than having the customers upset that it's buggy. The iChat back drops should have been removed, they look horrible.
Originally, my topic was supposed to be about how to make Stacks work the way it was demoed and still be able to know what apps are running without having to open the Stack. I realize they changed it for some reason... I mean, you can at least try to come up with an idea. That's the whole point of the thread.
I never said I was completely closed to the idea of making folders to make a Stack. I just said I wish it would have worked the "old way".
I wouldn't mind making a bunch of folders just to make a Stack that I want (I used to organize my applications folder like that anyway, group related items) but I'm just saying it would be cooler if Stacks worked like the original version. Obviously they changed it because of a good reason, perhaps because it would be hard to show what apps are open in a Stack. And that leads me back to my original point... how COULD it work? But so far you've just been kind of negative. This isn't a topic about complaining. I was trying to start ideas
And in response to your original question again, does my idea actually make it LESS productive? If it does, then... ok, what would make it more productive? Do you think there's a way? Should Stacks just never be able to function like the original way because it might cause confusion? What's "more productive" to you?
In fact, I don't see how it makes it less productive. If you have a Stack as it currently functions with applications in it, and click on the application, it will still appear in the right-most-position of the app section of the Dock. The only addition for my idea is that it bounces out of the Stack, instead of simply appearing there. And the only reason it bounces out of the Stack (hell it doesn't even have to be a bounce) is because having 2 of the same icon would be confusing.
But I ask you again... what's your idea, if you even have one? What would be more productive to you as an individual?
I'm quite sure you don't have to change the alias every time that happens. At least I've never had to do it. Also as an experiment, I just trashed my copy of seamonkey and replaced it with a new one and it didn't affect the alias.
Actually, I meant moving the app itself into a new folder, without creating an alias. I think I've done that before.... If I remember correctly, I think it just put the updated version in the Applications folder, and you'd have to drag it into whatever folder you moved the app to and replace the older version. I guess I wouldn't like having a Stack full of aliases though
