[DM-MUG] upgrading to Leopard

[jim lagnese]

I just did a "defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES" and then
did a killall Dock at the CLI. :)


//On 10/31/07 4:27 PM, "Bryan Baker" <ka_klick at mac.com> wrote:

> Here's an idea I've had since reading several negative reviews of
> what the new dock and desktop do to folders:
> 
> Create a folder inside the folder you put in the dock, name it the
> same as the folder it's in, except add something that sorts higher,
> like a "*" to the beginning. You could maybe even use a custom Icon
> if they haven't broken the basic drag/paste operation in get info.
> Then, that folder should be on top of the stack, no? It might still
> have a garbled mess of stuff below it (one reason to consider a
> custom icon) but it'll be the name of the folder and put you back in
> control (a bit).
> 
> I haven't upgraded anything yet, though waiting on CDW to deliver a
> shiny new Xserve which I'll upgrade asap w/ Leopard, since they won't
> be shipping Leopard imaged servers for  a while (my rep said Jan).
> I'll just have Apple ship me the upgrade. This'll be an interesting
> transition since I'll be moving from a 10.3.x based xserve to a 10.5.x
> 
> Also going to upgrade the work laptop - will probably repeat the way
> I upgraded it last time - image to FW drive, boot from FW to test, do
> a wipe and install on the machine, the use the migration assistant -
> worked nicely from 10.3 - 10.4 - hope I don't have to go through the
> agony of the first spotlight index again - that took hours.
> 
> 
> On Oct 29, 2007, at 11:23 PM, Darcy Baston wrote:
>> The new dock is horrible. I don't like it and am using the more
>> traditional view by either putting on the left, or playing with
>> 'write default' at the command line.
>> 
>> I don't like how when you used to just see a folder's icon when you
>> dragged it to the dock, it now renders a stack of icons indicating
>> its content. If you only have one file in a folder you drag to it,
>> it shows the icon of that one file instead of the folder. That's
>> just silly and is making me go back to DragThing for custom icon
>> drop zones.
>> 
> 
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