Icon change once application is hidden?

[Mattachoo]

Recently, my laptop was stolen and I just received my new one today. On my old one, I had an program installed, I think it was in the preferences actually, that made it so when I "hid" an application, the corresponding application icon in the Dock would dim; its opacity would lower. This way, you knew that application was currently hiding.

I can't remember the name of the program that I used to get this desired effect. Anyone else know of the program I am talking about or of another program that can achieve the same effect? Thanks

 

[angelwatt]

I've done this through Terminal changing a plist item. I haven't tried it on Snow Leopard though.

 

[Mattachoo]

The Terminal fix worked, thank you. I don't understand why some of these features aren't available to edit in the Preferences Pane. No reason why we should have to do these work-arounds for it.

 

[angelwatt]

The Terminal fix worked, thank you. I don't understand why some of these features aren't available to edit in the Preferences Pane. No reason why we should have to do these work-arounds for it.

Apple may not consider some of these "hidden" features to be ready for prime time, or didn't feel they could add the settings for them to the interface in a way they liked. The Terminal commands aren't really work-arounds, they're just a different interface than you're use to. The preference files can also be opened in property list editor for a more graphical experience. An app you may like though, is TinkerTool, which was built to get at some of these more elusive settings.