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10.5: Banish the 3D dock from 10.5
Authored by: Padriac on Oct 24, '07 10:03:57PM
While I respect subjective opinion, I'm amazed at how very wrong everbody is about the new Dock. It is *functionally* superior to the old dock in almost every way:

http://www.consumermachine.com/?p=285

I'm happy we can customize with hints like this, but I hope everybody realizes they are switching to an inferior tool.

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10.5: Banish the 3D dock from 10.5
Authored by: robg on Oct 24, '07 10:36:00PM

We're not comparing it to the OLD dock. We're comparing it to the new alternative dock. And in that comparison, for me, the 3D version is simply the pits.

The article you reference makes a number of statements, but there's no hard evidence (ie scientific studies) included to back up those statements. I, on the other hand, will never claim science in this debate. I just know I prefer working with the 2D dock over the 3D dock.

-rob.



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10.5: Banish the 3D dock from 10.5
Authored by: harmless on Oct 24, '07 10:55:11PM

I disagree with everything the author says in that article.

While I really don't want to write as long an essay about it, just a few points:

The docks bounding box is "telling me not to go there"? I guess we should remove borders around windows, too.

The reflections make it "easier to find" the dock icons? I'm perfectly aware where my dock icons are; I don't have to "find" them, thank you very much.

I could go on. But thankfully it isn't necessary, since I can just disable all that visually distracting nonsense.



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10.5: Banish the 3D dock from 10.5
Authored by: DanFrakes on Oct 25, '07 03:03:41PM

Padriac, just because that article says everyone is "wrong" and the modified design is an "inferior tool" doesn't make either statement true. Many of the points in that article are matters of opinion, and some of them are just plain illogical.

If you like the new Dock appearance, great; you'll be happier with Leopard than some other people ;-)

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Dan Frakes / Senior Editor, Macworld / Senior Reviews Editor, Playlist



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