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Making the dock as unobtrusive as possible
Authored by: schneb on Apr 26, '04 02:46:27PM

Because it is intrusive with no way to deactivate it. I had a big debate in the forums about it. My arguement always has been that Jobs says that OSX allows the user to dictate to the OS how you work and not make you work according to the OS. This is true with the menu customization, but not with the Dock. You MUST use it, and you MUST use it THIS way.

To answer your question, I use FruitMenu to get back to the Classic Mac way of doing things. I also use CM to send files to other apps such as Quicktime.



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But the Dock looks great!!!
Authored by: hamarkus on Apr 26, '04 04:32:09PM

Apart from all usability issues, the Dock looks just so great, I would never hide it.



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Making the dock as unobtrusive as possible
Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on Apr 26, '04 04:51:42PM

When did Jobs say all this? He always wants things his way, period. Notice how he killed off themes in OS 8? He also doesn't want OS X's interface changed at all.

Personally I don't see anything wrong with the Dock. I also use FruitMenu and Windowshade X. I even use DragThing, but use the Dock to switch apps.



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Deactivate the Dock...?
Authored by: S on Mar 01, '08 08:50:27AM
No way to deactivate the Dock? I like it, but if I ever need to stop it running for a while I make a backup of my system then use

sudo mv /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app ~/System/Dock.app
killall Dock
and to change it back:

sudo mv ~/System/Dock.app /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app
open /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app
You could put this in a script for one-click access.
(Of course, you need a folder called "System" in your home folder.)

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Deactivate the Dock...?
Authored by: S on Mar 01, '08 08:52:56AM

...sorry, I know this is rather late...



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Deactivate the Dock...?
Authored by: S on Mar 01, '08 09:43:23AM

set dockActive to false
set dockPath to ":System:Library:CoreServices:Dock.app"

try
	dockPath as alias
	set dockActive to true
on error
	set dockActive to false
end try

if dockActive = false then
	do shell script "mv ~/System/Dock.app /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app; open /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app" user name "*" password "*" with administrator privileges
else
	do shell script "mv /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app ~/System/Dock.app; killall Dock" user name "*" password "*" with administrator privileges
end if


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