• The Dock is way too fucking dark. The glass shelf doesn’t thrill me either, but at least it’s a subtle eyesore.
  • Holy crap Spotlight is faster. I used to use Google Desktop based solely on its speed — now it actually has to compete on features.
  • Did I mention that the Dock is too fucking dark?
  • I like the Downloads stack idea — even though I still sometimes reach for the Show Desktop Exposé key to find a download.
  • I’m not crazy about stacks being displayed so literally in the Dock.
  • I don’t really like having to open the stack in Finder to group-delete items either.
  • Do you think it takes the fill color from one of the edge PNGs? That’d make it a lot easier to fix without resorting to ClearDock (when it’s updated for Leopard).
  • The ever-present window drop shadow takes a nap when entering or leaving Time Machine. If they’d kept it, the visual effect of stepping into (or out of) the Way Back might actually work.

Update

No, you cannot change the color of the non-glass-shelf Dock with some simple editing of the obvious images inside Dock.app. For the left side the images are left1.png–left5.png, corresponding to the top edge, the top-right corner, the right edge, the bottom-right corner, and the bottom edge — leaving just 95% of the area of the dock to go. Since I find the dark Dock more unpleasant than the glass-shelf one, I just switched it back to the bottom at a very small size and figured I’ll survive until someone figures out where the fill color lives.

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