sick of dock rollover effect - General Discussion Discussions on AppleInsider Forums (2024)

I moved it to the right side with itunes scroll thing along the bottom right.

I always had the zooming off.

ZO same here. Used to like it but turned it off. And transparent is just better. However, for some reason, with or without magnification my Dock skips when coming up. Dunno why but it lags on my PBG4 12". Just like DVDs...Probably the infamous 10.2.4...

Multiple Docks would be nice.

I turned off magnification when I got my iBook. Not because it was slow or choppy, it's usually quite smooth... it just bugs me. Much like the pinstripes.

Now I've adopted a left-edge dock too. Gives me more vertical room for browsing, though most applications (even Apple ones) are only semi-dock aware, as in they THINK the dock will always be along the bottom edge. So they resize to perfectly fit a bottom-edge dock, but they end up being under my left-edge dock. Not a big problem, it's not that big so I can always move stuff out of the way.

I want one of two things - either a little grabber-tab thing for extending and retracting the dock, or the ability to turn the dock off completely in favor of a different dock.

[quote]Originally posted by serrano:

<strong>Dock zoom was always gei. I only have a few items, and that makes it annoying. However some of the docks on those Power of X keynotes make it clear when magnification is necessary.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Or if you have a cinematic display?

It's the only time I've seen zooming come into play. I have an "old" G3 700 Graphite iMac and I have it hidden on the bottom. I might get rid of it and find a hak for a more OS 9 finder/menu type.

[quote]Originally posted by ZO:

<strong>after approx 2 years, I have turned off the dock effect when you roll over the icons.</strong><hr></blockquote>

It took you that long? I did that on the first day. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />

I have it still turned on. I kinda like it.

[quote]Originally posted by Defiant:

<strong>I have it still turned on. I kinda like it.

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I'm with him i like it too....it's just one of those cool things that helps the user not get in there way as the icon goes back to small when you click on it and move the mouse away.....it's just another thing that windows people can't do... <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" />

[quote]Originally posted by Defiant:

<strong>I have it still turned on. I kinda like it.

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i like it but only a little like i said earlier

its better with just a slight increase, when it gets giant, its REALLY annoying

i think you people that dont like it would like it better if u did what i did and have it slightly increase in size...its just a nice classy amount of motion

If you're sick of the Dock altogether and want a more OS 9 menu I found this shareware called <a href="http://www.profusionware.com/quickclick/index.php&quot; target="_blank">QuickClick</a>. Just downloaded it. I'll try it this weekend. Screen shot:

Heh, after about 2 years, I actually just turned application bouncing back on. I had turned it off in 10.0 on my G3 400 cuz it was soo slow at the time. But now it works nice in 10.2.4 with a G4 667.

And I've always had magnification on. It's pretty.

with <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=11295&db=mac&quot; target="_blank">Transparent Dock</a>.

[quote]Originally posted by Asaph:

<strong>how do you make it transparent? ive been wondering this for some time now...</strong><hr></blockquote>

If you a simple one you can try ClearDOck from Unsanity.

<a href="http://unsanity.com/haxies/cleardock/&quot; target="_blank">http://unsanity.com/haxies/cleardock/</a&gt;

As for my Dock habits, I like the zoom. I think I will keep on using it. I'm thinking about trying DragThing though. I'll see how that works out.

[quote]Originally posted by frank_t:

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I'm with him i like it too....it's just one of those cool things that helps the user not get in there way as the icon goes back to small when you click on it and move the mouse away.....it's just another thing that windows people can't do... <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>

Just to let y'all know, there is an EXCELLNT OS Xdock imitation at <a href="http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/&quot; target="_blank">http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/</a&gt;

It works really well.

You can find extras for it and general XP customization at <a href="http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=29&quot; target="_blank">http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=29</a&gt;

I'm kinda surprised Apple hasnt pounced on this yet. I guess once they get through their latest barrage of UI patents, we'll see the demise of this too.

Screenshot of it:

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