- 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
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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.
I quite dislike the literal stacks display as well. It did a double-take because the first one in my account’s Applications folder is Adium, so that shows up twice in the dock, although in that case with the headphones from Audacity right behind it, so it looks like a duck with headphones on! Gah.
TUAW posted this tweak:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/30/how-to-tweak-the-leopard-docks-color/
I wish TM on a network mount would work, so I could try it out. Can’t be bothered to hook up a USB drive just to test it. Yet.