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Making the dock as unobtrusive as possible
Authored by: diamondsw on Apr 26, '04 10:36:25AM

Of course, almost all of this is available directly from the dock's preference pane. The only commands you need to execute are the ones that set it to the top right. Don't we have enough little utilities that will do that for us already? Why is this a hint?



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Making the dock as unobtrusive as possible
Authored by: Gigacorpse on Apr 26, '04 10:55:36AM

Well, the tilesize is new to me, so I did get something out of this hint. But why hide to bounce effect on a hidden dock?



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Making the dock as unobtrusive as possible
Authored by: edoriv on Apr 26, '04 11:07:04AM

the tile size wasn't apparent to you???

System Prefs > Dock > Dock Size

this slider sets the tile size

or you could click and drag on the dock separator area and this too will change the tile size.

why set the icons to not bounce... well because who wants to see an icon jump from under the menubar when loading an app...

I do still don't see a reason for this being a hint though... it's almost all in the dock settings already and many simple GUI utilities do this for us without command line use.



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Self-defence
Authored by: Wolf on Air on Apr 26, '04 11:58:09AM

Oh, right, being a Unix afficioinado, I tend to forget pure Mac enthusiasts tend to be console allergic... which is too bad. You're missing out. Anyhow, I posted it because I've never seen any reference to the "top" Dock position elsewhere (discovered it by guesswork) and I use a 12-inch Powerbook myself, and figured I wouldn't be the only one with this problem. There's also been a bit of discussion about hiding the Dock in the past, and I figured I'd post what I consider the ultimate solution.

There, satisfied? Jeez... just because you didn't benefit from a hint doesn't mean someone else won't.

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-Wolf on Air



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Self-defence
Authored by: schneb on Apr 26, '04 02:50:17PM

Don't let someone's rant get you down. Post away and let the admin's sort it out.



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Self-defence
Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on Apr 26, '04 04:35:34PM

"I tend to forget pure Mac enthusiasts tend to be console allergic.."

First I think you mean "Terminal" not "Console," which is a different application.

Secondly, I use the Terminal all the time, but some of these things take longer to type than to use the GUI. I don't think it has anything to do with being allergic to it.

:)



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Self-defence
Authored by: edoriv on Apr 26, '04 09:51:58PM

I wasn't talking for myself... I happen to use the terminal almost every day... I'm a web developer and use the command line to configure servers and set up sites all the time. I happen to just feel this is just as easy if not easier using the gui tools especially for most that don't like the terminal.

sorry if I didn't think this was all that much of a hint. I rarely say much because many things here are kewl tips sso kill me if the rare time i speak up is when I think a tip is filler fluff.



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Repetition makes Perfect, not redundant
Authored by: gabester on Mar 28, '06 09:48:21AM

I think it's important to note that, while your way of doing things might work for you very well - i.e. using the available GUI to perform most of the functions of this hint and following other hints that accomplished similar things, it certainly doesn't hurt to have hints that are a bit repetitive come out:
1. They accomplish something new.
2. They refresh the reader about something they read some time ago and might have wanted to try but never got around to doing.

Personally I don't have the time try out even a small fraction of the panoply of hints available here; and often I find very useful nuggets that do bypass the GUI to accomplish great things that I otherwise would not have known about. It's good to have more ways of doing things so that you can choose the way that works best for you; and it's good to have some repetition in hints so that good ideas of yesteryear aren't lost. Rob, maybe you should start a "Today's best hints in history" and include the top viewed/commented/utilitarian hints of years past as a sidebar link every day.
g=



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Making the dock as unobtrusive as possible
Authored by: Gigacorpse on Apr 26, '04 03:01:07PM

"the tile size wasn't apparent to you???

System Prefs > Dock > Dock Size"

With the example shown in the hint, I can actually set docksize with a real number value, not a slider where I have to guess. I have two Macs and this will allow me to have a consistant dock size setting between them.



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Key advantage here: scriptability
Authored by: Han Solo on Apr 26, '04 11:16:10PM

The key advantage of this approach (using the CLI instead of the GUI) is that it is easily scriptable, allowing switching between different settings in one easy step (vs. multiple steps with the GUI) and/or exactly replicating settings across different machines (vs. approximations with unlabeled sliders in the GUI).



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Get over yourself!
Authored by: RickoKid on Apr 26, '04 05:10:06PM

Oh come on! MacOSXHints is a great site - why ruin it by constantly griping about what is a hint and what isn't? Comments like this are getting more and more prevalent ... and I don't see the point! If Robg considers something worthy to spend his time approving then I don't see why anyone can complain - and Robg ... please don't feel like you have to justify posting a hint that others may think is not a hint - if you think it is .... well ... it is!

I realise this post is sort of ironic - a post criticising others criticising others!



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Get over yourself!
Authored by: diamondsw on Apr 27, '04 12:16:05AM

When a hint has been posted and 90% can be done in the obvious GUI supplied, no that's not a hint. Sorry if I ruffled some feathers.



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Get over yourself!
Authored by: spazz on Apr 27, '04 08:05:15AM

It's that other 10% that may be of greatest value to me.

Spazz

They say that if you play a Windows Install CD backwards, you hear satanic messages...
That's nothing; play it forward and it installs Windows.



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I have to agree...
Authored by: jiclark on Apr 27, '04 11:16:18AM

..albeit a little more calmly. ;-}

I wish that people who feel a hint isn't worthy of being a hint would just move on to the next one. It's simply a waste of time to bother posting the opinion. One could argue it's just as bad as posting an unworthy hint in the first place...

Bottom line: let everyone get what they will out of this site and don't waste your time arguing about whether a hint is really a hint or not. Let Sir Rob decide, and leave it at that.



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