Ooooooph!
Hear that? That’s the sound of an OSX Leopard feature hittin’ the pavement…head first…hard. “Stackin’” (stack n. crash. v. crash.), if you will. How sweeeet the sound.
If you’ve had your ear to the ground since Leopard came out you’ll have heard the rapidly growing rumble of dissatisfaction with many features of the new Dock. One of them is the new way in which folders in the dock respond to clicks/control-clicks. Instead of opening the folder/presenting a menu with the folder’s contents you are presented with a fan or translucent grid of the folder’s contents/option menu. This is a major change to the Dock’s behavior and not a change for the better.
Those of us Leopard users that wince a little every time one of those damn screened back or fanned-out collection of icons pops up in the dock are going to get a little relief, it seems, late this year or early next. Ladies and gentlemen it appears that 10.5.2 is slated to give us back the list feature in the dock.
“Nerd!”, you say? I care not! I wait with baited breath.
P.S. Interesting that, in the images of the developer preview presented in the post to which I’ve linked, there is another modification, to another of the features of the new Leopard dock that has received a major thrashing and nobody seems to be talking about it: the shiny shelf of the bottom-positioned dock is gone and has been replaced by the same sleek black look you get when you position the dock on either the left or right side of the screen. Go ahead, have a look. It [still] feels like a Christmas present from Apple but apparently the credit for that special dock look goes to LeopardDocks.
