At the last minute, Apple has changed the appearance of the Dock in Mac OS X Leopard when it is placed on the sides of the screen. If so, the dock will lose its much-criticised 3D appearance in favour of a more traditional 2D look. When placed at the bottom, the dock does retain its 3D appearance; however, a smart hacker has already found out that via a single command in the terminal, you can give the bottom dock the same 2D appearance. In other words, everybody who criticised the new dock (including yours truly): rejoice!
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I have never been fond of the dock in OS X. I've always found the 3D dock horrible, but the 2D one is tolerable.The dock is one of those things I would have prefered more NeXtish. One of my wishes (another is an option to deactivate the menubar and replace it with the old vertical menus) is some option to disable it : with something like Dragthing it becomes totally useless, and even annoying.
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Agreed. But is the new dock functionally deficient from the old one, or is this really about fearing change? Though, I do agree with the saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
If the new Dock is that unappealng to users, the Apple should allow for a GUI based setting in Preferences so the dock can easily be switched back to the old skin. More simple than resorting to CLI, that is.
Some people hated the new Start menu in XP, while others (myself included) preferred it over digging through icons on the desktop.
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The problem is this new "Classic Dock" that can be turned on using the command line, is not the same as the Dock from Tiger.
It is transparent grey, rather than transparent white (as, things underneath it are darker, and not lighter), and its outline is very in-your-face compared to Tiger's.
Finally, the indicators for the currently running App are imho much worse than Tiger's. Tiger's were simple black triangles that got out of your way when you don't need them (as in, they don't stick out).
The new globes of light (just like in the 3D dock), are very distracting, on the other hand.
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