is it possible to get rid of the dock?

[dylanemcgregor]

Originally posted by j33pd0g
dylanemcgregor:

Totally not on the same page as me... I think the taskbar is clunky junk compared to the dock.

BTW, you know you can just just throw anything into the dock you want?

Also you can unpin the dock and turn off magnification if you want. So you can anchor it ala windows Nazi style in the lower left hand of your desktop. That should stop all your movement.

I'm not a taskbar fanatic or anything, plenty of room for improvement in there. I especially hate the way everything and the kitchen sink gets thrown into the system tray on the windows taskbar. I just think that the taskbar does a few things well. The biggest is that my quicklaunch applications are in the same place no matter how many open applications I'm running.

I didn't know that you could unpin the dock. How do you do this?

I actually like the magnification feature, as long as it is on one of the smaller settings.

One more question about the dock please. If I have a program open, but I've closed all the windows, the application still shows up in the "open applications" part of the dock. But if I click on it it doesn't automatically open a new window of the application. Is there a way to do this? Thanks for the help.

-Dylan

 

[j33pd0g]

Dylan, TransparentDock 2.2 should work for you. Head on over to: www.freerangemac.com and check it out. It's shareware, and IMHO worth it. I would also like to think you could unpin the dock via the terminal... but I haven't searched for that yet.

 

[dylanemcgregor]

Thanks for the link. I'll check it out the next time I'm online on my girlfriend's Mac.



-Dylan