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On which side of the screen do you keep your dock?
1/1: On which side of the screen do you keep your dock?
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Why on the Right?
I have mine on the right edge of the right monitor and on auto-hide (cmd-opt-d) at work on my dual-monitor set up. That means it's off of my main work space (the left monitor) and hidden unless I absolutely want it (a rare event).
At the bottom
To my mind, the dock is like the dashboard in a car. Should confuse things when Tiger comes out.
Left damnit! Left!
On a laptop, keeping the dock on either side works best since the screen proportions are different than your normal monitor. Think letterbox. And since the Finder places downloaded files, etc., on the right side of the Desktop (if you have 'keep arranged' set), you don't want your dock to cover them or pop up when you're trying to open a file. Works for me.
Left damnit! Left!
The problem I ran into with placing the dock on the sides (with a 15" PB) was microdock: the dock became so crowded with extra-small icons that it was difficult to distinguish them, or to avoid overshooting with drag-and-drop, etc. Resulted in noticeably slower mousing — and hence lower productivity! So I went back to the dock at the bottom, auto-hidden. YMMV.
Left damnit! Left!
Damn right; I approve.
Right, like everything else
Ever since we got the ability to move the Dock (10.1?), I've had it on the right. Back in ye ole days of Mac OS 9 and earlier, I always disliked how the Apple menu was on the left while my hard drive, trash, and random files were on the right. I usually put shortcuts to my favorite apps on the right, so the left side became my default workspace. I always hated the bottom dock when I first started using OS X, so as soon as I got the chance I moved it to the right. With my nice Logitech two button mouse and some good icons and folder choices on the Dock, I can access basically anything I ever need just by going to the right side of my desktop and doing a couple mouseclicks.
Top?
First of all, i kepe it on the bottom even when using my 12" PB. I just don't find it annoying. it is, however, fairly small. If it really gets annoying i will turn on hiding but i like it out and about. I attrinute this and my need for largest windows of browsers and stuff to my Winblows days. I am trying to rid myself of them but maximised windows and a dock (system tray in Win.) are still with me.
Top?
Tinker Tool and Xupport will allow you to do this, or you can edit the com.apple.dock.plist file. In any case, it takes some getting used to if you also have auto-hide in effect since you need to position the cursor precisely on the lower edge of the menu bar.
dock position
running along bottom, and stationed in the bottom left corner, thanks to Tinker Tool
Bottom Right
Bottom right corner, and no other way! :-D
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Bottom left
Got it pinned to the "start" (left) position at the bottom of my screen. This keeps all the permanent dock application icons in a fixed position, for easier access via muscle memory. ;)
On a nice wide screen, left or right gives more real estate
Most apps even when 'maximised' don't take up the whole screen on my Powerbook due to the wide screen. They do always fill from the top to the bottom however. Thus, I can get largest window size by placing the dock on the right (I suppose I could put it on the left, but it just feels better to me on the right). At the top or bottom, it would eat into the windows, at the right, it's comfortably available at all times without taking away from any of the windows :)
LEFT!, here's why:
Left is best.
best is relative
If mouse navigation to/from it seems awkward, left isn't necessarily the best position when you frequently interact with the Dock on a large display. But a longer row of larger Dock icons along the bottom of a large display might also be awkward. And on the right it can interfere more with default icon placement, as mentioned.
Bottom Left
On the bottom, hooked to the left through the miracle of TinkerTool. It's keeps out of the way of my Photoshop tool palette, as well as all the palettes on the right, and I don't have to keep it hidden.
Right
Right side, pinned to the top ala Tinkertool. |
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