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How to work in OS X without using the Dock
Authored by: Basilisk on Mar 19, '04 04:19:05PM

You can't completely kill the Dock and maintain full functionality. Expose, for example, requires the Dock. Hiding it is really the best solution.

Bas



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How to work in OS X without using the Dock
Authored by: wgzn on Apr 13, '04 12:34:24AM

ive tried ALL the options to disable the dock.

the easiest is writing a short applescript that quits the dock and then making that a startup item - the big problem with that is that the dock is part of the finder so desktop images, shutting down, logging-out (and other key features) are also disabled.

the next best solution seems to be the one that reduces it to 1 pixel and crams it in the upper corner... nice, but still feels a bit hackish.

and ive found that ALL the quasi-commercial haxies are not any more effective.

ive pretty much decided that there is NO clean WAY to remove the dock without effecting something else. so...

i wish to God that apple would listen to all of us core users who HATE the F**king dock and get rid of the damn thing. that would then make "expose" (what a joke!) useless and we could get back to the apple menu and window shading. which were two key elements to the wonderfully efficient and distinctive apple OS experience.

does anyone else out there argree with me that the whole of the panther user experience is just way to damned much of a novelty?



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