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10.5: Use Tiger's Dock in Leopard
Authored by: MSW on Nov 27, '07 07:17:25AM
I went to this site http://www.macosxhints.com/search.php?query=Dock&mode=search&type=all&keyType=all and followed the instructions. I was able to replace the 10.5 dock.app with 10.4 dock.app. Now the hierarchal pop-up folders have returned but other functionality has been lost such as Dashboard no longer works , not all black triangles appear indicating active apps, and Cmd-tab does not work to switch active apps.. So this hack is not the final solution.

What puzzles me so is why Apple would eliminate a valuable function such as a hierarchal pop-up menu in the dock and add a confusing feature such as superimposing a file icon on a folder icon in the dock (http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/13). I hope they listen to their customers about this matter and review the loss of functionality. It would seem that code-wise this would be an easy fix.

The state of OS 10.5 now has forced me to uninstall it and return to 10.4. I have never before had to do this with the Mac OS. In the past the new OS was always better in every way but not this time.



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