Comments on: Workaround: Mac OS X Leopard Docked Folder Icon Madness

By: Mathias

Mathias — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:32:40 +0000

Very pretty solution using semi-translucent folder icons (from a Japanese guy) go check
http://t.ecksdee.org/post/19001860
for the English language version.

It is awesome! and much more Apple-ish than Apple’s! really really pretty!

By: amy [knitty]

amy [knitty] — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:44:43 +0000

dude, THANK YOU.
i’m very visual. the new nondescript or piled-up icons were making my head hurt. your fix has saved me.

[it DOES seem supremely un-Apple of Apple to make such a mess of the UI, doesn't it? i just don't get it. shall we start the countdown until they fix this?]

By: John Goold

John Goold — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:45:24 +0000

I seem to be the odd-man out. I like the way the folders work in the dock (except for the well named “Icon Madness”). With one exception, all the folders I put in the dock contained aliases for applications — the folders just grouped them in a useful way (and I only put frequently used applications’ aliases in these folders). I then trashed every application icon I could from the dock (leaving the Finder and the Trash).

Every now and again I accidently “Opened” one of these folders — now I don’t have to worry about that. The one exception is a “shared folder” — shared with Windows XP using Parallels Desktop. Now it takes an extra click to open it. Hardly a problem.

I like the way the stacks “open” — I guess because I’m getting older, I find the big icons make it easy to select an application.

I’m going to try the Icon work-around (putting a carefully-named icon in the folder).

By: blueintheface

blueintheface — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:11:29 +0000

I have 4 HD’s in my Mac Pro. They show up a dumb folders in my Dock.

Unfortunately, there seems to be no way round this with ‘aliases’.

I cannot believe how many of Apple’s own UIG’s the new Dock violates.

Really, as someone who used folder the Dock for quick directory access, Leopard’s Dock has really slowed me down. If only there were a way of reverting to 10.4’s Dock.

All I ever wanted was 10.4’s Dock plus spring-loaded folders, and rather like the devil in Bedazzled (not the dismal remake) Apple have made me regret what I wished for.

Plus the indistinguishable new folders are an incongruity.

By: Hoops

Hoops — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:52:45 +0000

you can drag the alias file into the corresponding folders, name it with some space/underscores/AAAAA’s, sort by name and then you get the stack behavior with the proper icon.

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:54:25 +0000

I would have thought even rudimentary user testing would have brought this up as a problem.

By: Marshall

Marshall — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:21:05 +0000

I worked around it by setting each Docked folder to sort by Name, and then adding an icon file to each folder named “ • Stack Icon”. The extra space at the beginning appears to be necessary, as Stacks seem to sort differently from Finder windows.

The icon gets placed on a white background, which is not necessarily the most attractive thing in the world for the Dock, but it retains the fan or grid behavior and differentiates it well from minimized windows.

By: drow

drow — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:48:10 +0000

and then, go get some REAL folder icons from iconfactory or something.