When Dock Icons Exceed Screen Resolution

[dpaanlka]

I thought about what might happen, so I tried it. Set my screen to 640 x 480, and just started putting tons of documents from a folder into the dock. I don't know how many I put in there, but the folder has 900 documents and I made it pretty far.

Eventually, I got to this point:



Adding one more document to that resulted in this:



Everything disappears... and check out those active triangles.

Crazy!

 

[Blurg]

That's pretty cool, I've always wondered about that

 

[whooleytoo]

Heh! I'd love to see an animation if you turn your (Dock)magnification up full and run your cursor across the Dock! You could even do a funky animated short like that!

 

[Tom B.]

Apparently the smallest you can get each icon is 1 x 1 pixel.

 

[dpaanlka]

Heh! I'd love to see an animation if you turn your (Dock)magnification up full and run your cursor across the Dock! You could even do a funky animated short like that!

Well, it initially looks like this:



However, I think I have discovered a minor, probably unknown bug, as moving the mouse down the line results in this:



Basically the icons never go away. And moving it around a lot results in this:



And it stays that way until I log out move the mouse to the end or off the dock... floating above any other windows.

 

[Penryn]

After reading this post Apple dev. team got right to work on 10.4.11