Well, my absolute favorite Mac OS X tip is if you hold down the COMMAND key when you drag an item to a folder in the dock, the folder will NOT slide out of the way -- it will just sit there waiting for you to drag stuff into it!
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When you've got a folder in the dock, and you want to drag an item into that folder, does anybody else find it disconcerting to have that folder MOVE OUT OF THE WAY for a second because it thinks you're trying to add something to the DOCK instead of to that folder?
Well, my absolute favorite Mac OS X tip is if you hold down the COMMAND key when you drag an item to a folder in the dock, the folder will NOT slide out of the way -- it will just sit there waiting for you to drag stuff into it!
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Any way to change this?
Holding down the COMMAND key does prevent things moving around on the Dock. However am I the only one who finds this a pain? I drag things to ITEMS on the Dock far more than I drag things to the Dock itself.
Command click on dock icon
I don't drag stuff to folders in the dock often but I believe people in general do this *much* more often than actually adding stuff to the dock. Therefore it would be better with a delay for adding stuff unless a modifier is down. To avoid the problem of moving to the trash, use the keyboard shortcut Command-Backspc.
Good point!
I think that we might be better off with this (static icons) as the default behavior. I do dock "drag & drops" *vastly* more often than adding an icon to the dock.
Great point!
This would make the addition/modify behavior more consistant with the menubar, toolbar, titlebar...
COMMAND-drag = move
I think the reason why COMMAND-dragging a file to the dock keeps icons in place is because COMMAND-dragging moves files to a different location. Since files/folders don't technically reside in the Dock, you can't move files into it.
So, if you want to move files from one drive/partition to another, you can COMMAND-drag. This basically creates a copy of the files in the new location and then deletes the files from the old location. BananaFish |
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