I found it annoying to hide the dock myself, although I found it worked just fine at the bottom. I always made it as small as I could and still see it and let it grow rather large when I wanted it. It's interesting to note about showing you information in the dock, this is one of the complaints on the iphone that you have to open an app to find out just about anything. On Androids home screen you can find out weather, the content of a new sms, an IM, stock quotes, full calender etc Almost everything can be found out from the home screen of an android phone without opening any apps...I'm anxious to see where Apple takes the iPhone OS since it's first iteration was so simple and groundbreaking. Will they [ever] overhaul it and bring more functionality to the home screen? If it was MS I'd say they are just going to copy someone who does it better...but being Apple they might look at the better on Android and scratch it and go some other direction that just ups the ante.
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:00 PM, tjpa <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 22, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Allen Firstenberg wrote: > >> When I first started using OSX, I tried moving the dock around and trying >> different hide settings and never quite liked it. Lots of my windows put >> stuff on the left, and having the dock there would cover it. Setting it >> to >> auto hide would have it slow to return when I did want it. >> > > I suspect that hiding the Dock may be the reason some hate the Dock. It > does not work as well when hidden. On my screen the dock is just 1/2 inch > wide and holds 46 icons. I don't see any problem with giving up that space. > I slide all the program windows over by that half inch and most apps > remember that position. The dock is not just a program launcher, but also > provides information about the state of the computer. The iCal icon even > changes to show me the date. When I want to email a file I drag it into the > Mail icon. To edit a file I drag it into the icon of the app I want to use, > which will vary with what I'm doing. Hiding the Dock would deprive me of > much functionality and slow me down. I would first have to drag a file to > the edge to display the Dock, then scan for the app's icon, and then make > another trip to the icon's location. With the Dock always visible I can scan > for the icon at the same time as I drag the file over to the Dock. It is one > seamless motion. Very fast. > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
