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10.5: Change the Dock's background and separator
Authored by: berada on Oct 29, '07 08:08:39AM

I found this out yesterday ... I'm a Dock on the right person myself and I'm not happy with the heavy handed design of the new side Dock. I've managed to manipulate the set of PNG's for the right placed Dock to remove the horrid white outline but I've not figured out how to change the colour.

The right (left and bottom) placed flat look Dock uses a set of 5 images cunningly named right1.png -> right5.png to obfuscate their function (obviously the left Dock is left1.png -> left5.png and bottom is bottom1.png -> bottom5.png). These 5 images are for the top and bottom corners and the top, left and bottom edges. Changing the colour of these images creates a wide border effect around the icon area/background of the Dock which remains the same dark grey. Bummer.

The background area containing the icons must be managed by some other image in the Resources folder or it's done programmatically .... has anyone discovered how the main background area is handled yet?



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10.5: Change the Dock's background and separator
Authored by: mimic on Feb 03, '09 05:43:04PM

Any progress on discovering a way to change the background color of left/right positioned Dock? Images only influence its border.



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