I used the following from Unsanity in 10.2: WindowshadeX, Xounds, FruitMenu, and ClearDock. The first three restore features that were in Mac OS 9 but are still missing in 10; the last one makes the background of the Dock totally transparent so the Dock icons seem to float over the desktop.
It does more than that as well. Very useful for some desktop pictures that have a dark background.
I'm running Cleardock in Panther with no problems, though IIRC I had to update the APE Manager thingy first.
I tried but it asked for a password and I don't remember having to use a password before.
If Apple would get in gear and restore the features, then people wouldn't need to get the 3rd party stuff.
If people would just get with the program and stop relying on OS 9 crutches, they'd be a lot more productive. There are two sides to that view. I personally find that Expose and the "Genie" effect make the Windowshade effect obsolete; Xounds of course has never had any useful purpose whatsoever except to take up WAY too much RAM and cause system slowdowns; and FruitMenu is IMHO for people who don't understand how to use the Dock properly. Folders and drive icons in the Dock are hierarchal: click and hold and voila! Instant access to anything you want.
The main problem with the Dock is that Apple tried to make it do too MANY things, so instead of a couple of small apps doing their thing very well, we have 1 big app that tries to do everything adequately. Even made very small and with auto hide turned on, the Dock STILL gets in my way (unless I leave about an inch of empty space between the window edge and the screen edge where the Dock is located. Expose may work as a windowshade replacement as soon as I get into the habit of hitting F9. I've found that having the hierarchical lists for System Preferences and Applications in the Apple menu is more convenient having to open a window to select one. And no, your "click and hold" does NOT give a list for the System Preferences, it gives ONE item "Show in Finder" FruitMenu gave a nice list of the control panels. Xounds lets the OS X Macintosh really be the "Computer for the rest of us"; if you don't like it then maybe you should only be using linux, unix or at least Terminal. A lot of the changes in OS X seem to be change JUST FOR THE SAKE OF CHANGE.
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Dennis B. Swaney
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