What's on my dock
13/11/04 16:59 Filed in: Software
I've just read this very
interesting article at oreilly's
mac dev center, so in the same sprit
heres what's on my dock!
Taking it from the top we have Safari, Mail, Newsnetwire ,Super get info, Sticky brain, Iterm, calculator, Sherlock, Launch bar, Ipluse and Iblog. I then have a the two locations I can do with out my home directory and applications and finally trash. The only item here that doesn't have a permanent home on the dock is IBlog, which I'm using to write this!
I don't keep many applications on the dock, because I use Launch bar virtually every thing. The only items that get to live on the dock are ones that I use every single computing session Safari, Mail, and Newsnetwire fall in to this category and ones that run all the time (mostly hidden till they are needed), Iterm, calculator, Sherlock, Launch bar and Ipluse are these applications. In the middle we have two oddities, Super get info and Sticky brain. Super get info needs to be where I can drag things to it and I like keep my desk top totally empty of permanent icons so I can use it as a temp directory, so it can't go there. Sticky brain, well I don't know why I keep it there, I do use it almost every session, but it can be lunched from most context menus and has global key short cut that lunches it as well.
The items that run but say hidden are all manually started at boot time and then hidden, why do I do it like this? I don't know I just do. It's not to much of a problem since my mac gets rebooted about once every 3 months or so and they are on the dock so it's click, wait, command-H.
I keep my dock on the right hand side of the screen, with auto hide on. It's kept small but I have a large zoom factor set. It's on the right and hidden, because that's the way I set my PC up at work and I just can't break the habit.
I'm not massively happy with the dock. It dose it's job adequately, but it is confused. The task bar in windows is just used for switching apps, the dock however dose this as well an launching. Also you can only put apps or documents on it. I've tired various replacements, like Dangthing and pathfinder, but at the end of the day Launch bar covers the launching side of things nicely and I can live with or work around the other limitations, so it's staying.
Taking it from the top we have Safari, Mail, Newsnetwire ,Super get info, Sticky brain, Iterm, calculator, Sherlock, Launch bar, Ipluse and Iblog. I then have a the two locations I can do with out my home directory and applications and finally trash. The only item here that doesn't have a permanent home on the dock is IBlog, which I'm using to write this!
I don't keep many applications on the dock, because I use Launch bar virtually every thing. The only items that get to live on the dock are ones that I use every single computing session Safari, Mail, and Newsnetwire fall in to this category and ones that run all the time (mostly hidden till they are needed), Iterm, calculator, Sherlock, Launch bar and Ipluse are these applications. In the middle we have two oddities, Super get info and Sticky brain. Super get info needs to be where I can drag things to it and I like keep my desk top totally empty of permanent icons so I can use it as a temp directory, so it can't go there. Sticky brain, well I don't know why I keep it there, I do use it almost every session, but it can be lunched from most context menus and has global key short cut that lunches it as well.
The items that run but say hidden are all manually started at boot time and then hidden, why do I do it like this? I don't know I just do. It's not to much of a problem since my mac gets rebooted about once every 3 months or so and they are on the dock so it's click, wait, command-H.
I keep my dock on the right hand side of the screen, with auto hide on. It's kept small but I have a large zoom factor set. It's on the right and hidden, because that's the way I set my PC up at work and I just can't break the habit.
I'm not massively happy with the dock. It dose it's job adequately, but it is confused. The task bar in windows is just used for switching apps, the dock however dose this as well an launching. Also you can only put apps or documents on it. I've tired various replacements, like Dangthing and pathfinder, but at the end of the day Launch bar covers the launching side of things nicely and I can live with or work around the other limitations, so it's staying.
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