Desktop/Icon thread

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Paul Hanson
Speaking of docks, does anyone know how to prevent them from emerging from the sides of the screen when I'm playing a game? Every time I want to have a go on C&C Generals or Deus Ex, I have to quit YzDock (the one you thought had been sued out of existence, foolish Mac users! Bwahahahaha).

ObjectDock is very well behaved with full screen games. I used to have problems back when I used Y'z Dock.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Paul Hanson

I have to quit YzDock (the one you thought had been sued out of existence, foolish Mac users! Bwahahahaha).

Well other than being a pretty launcher, that app has no purpose. The real Dock can do more.

Anyway some icons of mine.

[Agathon]

And

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Agathon
Well other than being a pretty launcher, that app has no purpose. The real Dock can do more.

ObjectDock can do more too, but I keep that disabled. I like the Taskbar.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by St Leo

Originally posted by Agathon
Well other than being a pretty launcher, that app has no purpose. The real Dock can do more.

ObjectDock can do more too

Like what?

[Zero]

Originally posted by Agathon


Well other than being a pretty launcher, that app has no purpose. The real Dock can do more.

Anyway some icons of mine.

download more albums!

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Zero


download more albums!

I don't know how many more there are. Those were special Johnny Cash tribute icons I got from xicons.com

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Agathon


Like what?

Dunno. Taskbar replacement. Window management. Some useless crap.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by St Leo

Originally posted by Agathon


Like what?

Dunno. Taskbar replacement. Window management. Some useless crap.

That's not what I meant. The Dock can be used to control applications and report application status as well (e.g. Mail's Dock icon tells me how many unread messages I have and Photoshop's icon will tell you how far along a process is).

[Asher]

The Dock is one of the worst UI "inventions" ever conceived. It is universally blasted by any HCI expert you ask, including the guy who originally designed the MacOS GUI.

It's fine as a quicklaunch substitute, but once you do anything else with it it becomes a total mess.

[Inverse Icarus]

but the icons are pretty! AND THEY BOUNCE!

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Uber KruX
but the icons are pretty! AND THEY BOUNCE!

Not if you turn that off, which is the first thing I did.

[ixnay]

I turned off all the useless crap in my dock, so it now just functions as a nice, self-hiding quicklaunch.

I use a weather plugin for it, too, that gives me the temperature and weather outside

[Adagio]

Originally posted by ixnay
I use a weather plugin for it, too, that gives me the temperature and weather outside

Wouldn't it be easier to just... I don't know... go outside?

[Ted Striker]

.