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The New Dock
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Absolutely loving the new look of the Dock. Makes it even easier to decide in favor of upgrading (not that I hadn't already).
Would someone be so kind to test if it's still possible to make hidden applications appear transparent in the Dock? I find it super handy, it can be enabled through Terminal, here are the directions: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/08/make_your_dock_icons_translucent_for_hidden_apps-2/
Would someone be so kind to test if it's still possible to make hidden applications appear transparent in the Dock? I find it super handy, it can be enabled through Terminal, here are the directions: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/08/make_your_dock_icons_translucent_for_hidden_apps-2/
Thank you.
Original over here, it's called screen.li horizon http://bsa-danny.deviantart.com/art/Screen-li-Horizon-292284171
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I've come to realize that the 3D dock uses quite a bit more resources than its 2D counterpart. As a result, animations suffer when the 3D dock is enabled on older hardware (like my late 2008, unibody MacBook, for example). That's why I choose to use the 2D version. I much prefer smooth animations over a three-dimensional dock.
It is so because this blurry reflection on this frosted surface needs more computing power than straightforward reflection used in previous dock. However, it should be optimized so it doesn't affect UX...
I'm wondering if it is possible to copy over the Lion dock to ML in order to keep both a 3D dock and smooth transitions/ animations...
I understand but honestly in the grand scheme of things your computer performance overall will be poor regardless of 3d or not. I was craping by with my 2006 iMac on Lion as well. I disabled every animation and it was still a terrible experience heh.
I wonder if they'll change it before the GM. can't think of any good reason to have mismatching dock styles (and I do prefer the new Mountain Lion one).
Oh I like the new dock too, that's why I want it on iOS.
I'm thinking the new dock will probably be an iOS 6.1 or 7 thing if they don't do it before the GM. Why? I'm not sure. Apple works in... strange ways sometimes even though changing the graphic shouldn't take more than a few minutes.
New dock is one of my favourite things about Mountain Lion and yet it's one of the most simple improvements.
It can be replaced but the white edges from the DP4 dock will stick out. To do this i used the Dock contents from DP3 you can try this yourself with the files i have provided.
Result
Dock Test File
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