10.6: Use mouse-over-highlight in 10.6's Stacks

Sep 15, '09 07:30:06AM

Contributed by: slb

If you set the folders in your Dock to display using the Grid option, and then click a Docked folder, the contents show and, of course, you can select the items using the mouse/keyboard.

What's cool now is that if you hold the mouse for a second or two on the folder before moving the cursor to the grid area (i.e. don't just click the folder to open it), you get the white highlight to show what item you're mousing over. It's an option that you can choose to use or not -- which is different from the days of on/off in 10.5.

[robg adds: In 10.5, you had to enable this behavior (though it functioned a bit differently) using the mouse-over-hilte-stack preference, as explained in this hint. Now it's always there, but only active if you drag your mouse into the grid area, instead of clicking, releasing, and then moving into the grid area.]

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