Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Mac OS X Leopard 9A581's Dock Visual Tweaks
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Yayness for the dock being like that on the bottom. I hadn't noticed the indicator lights in the 2D dock earlier, and I do like them better than in the 3D dock.
-Chasen
-Chasen
Very good, that was bothering me in 9a559. Hopefully they've fixed the wireless reconnection bug too (always asking for network selection and password when you've already done it many, many times).
Well, it means moving your hand from the keyboard to the mouse, and then mousing over to the dock, as opposed to just hitting the shortcut-key on your keyboard and typing few letter. Keyboard wins the mouse. Mouse might be easier, but it's not faster.
Yeah, because speakers on the MBP are the biggest problem Apple has, and the only obstacle in their way to world-domination... That said, I have had no problems with the speakers on my MBP. true, they are not Genelecs, but they get the job done.
Seriously: why do I get the feeling that you are just desperately looking for something to whine about (again)? And why are you using MPB, since you hate everything Apple does?
Well, how about headphones then?
Only the anal retentive give a crap about a "flourish". Or, for that other person who was freaking out, scroll bar colors for that matter.
And only anal retentive would focus on whining about speakers on one particular model laptop....
Maybe, or maybe not. Do you have a reason to believe that there is something catastrophically wrong with Leopard?
Why would you care, two days before you go and buy Leopard? XD
There was this "Liger" ShapeShifter theme that came with a Dock skin somwehere on DeviantArt, though.
Aside from using terminal (I'm guessing every time you boot), is there any PROPPER way to make the dock 2D (eg, tick box in preferences), anyone with a GM copy care to enlighten?
We could do with one of those survey things here. I for one vote for the 2D dock, the 3D dock seems a bit like it is trying too hard. And although I may be proved wrong - I expect the 3D would be more distracting when working, especially if you have one of the smaller screen sizes.
I don't have the GM, but when you look at the terminal in the screenshot, you'll see the command "default" is used to edit the Dock preference file.
You do it once, and it'll stay 2D, until you edit the setting again.
For example, in Tiger you can define a "pinning", having the Trash Can in the bottom right corner, and the dock will grow to the left when you add more icons.
Does the simplified dock also support stacks? Then it sounds like the best of both worlds... I like the 3D dock, but this looks so much nicer!
So what's your suggestion?
Go back to a 2-3'' laptop, just so you can stuff some thicker speakers in it? What is the point of a laptop if it's HUGE!?! How many laptops do you know of that can fill a crowded room with sound?
Put on some headphones for pete's sake.
If you're doing any kind of presentations for business (which is slowly becoming more frequent as Macs are trickling into places outside desktop publishing), you're going to need decent speakers. It's certainly a more important issue overall than the shininess of the dock.
Are you serious? Please, get some speakers for your conference room. I don't care what laptop you have, it's not going to project in a large conference room.
I think the majority of people would take a thinner laptop with crappy speakers than a thick one with "nicer" speakers, that still aren't that useful for presentations.
Snap
Im personally gunna use the 3D but the 2D sure does look sweet
Man aint it nice when they listen