Have you tried putting the dock on the left or right side of the screen
instead of at the top or bottom? This will keep the directional flow of
folders closer to what you are used to.
Jerry
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 05:43 PM, Allan Atherton wrote:
> "George H. Yankey" <jeffco13 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> ...I am running OS 10.2.2. and everything is working well. Should I
>> upgrade to 10.2.3? I think I read somewhere that .3 is causing some
>> problems.
>> ... My Dock is getting cluttered. Is there some way I can
>> consolidate like programs ... in a folder...?
>
> Judging from the conversations at Apple Discussions
> <http://discussions.info.apple.com/> the usual number of people have
> had
> problems after this update, as they do with every update. These are
> people
> who probably already had problems with file and directory maintenance
> that
> they did not know about. If you update on top of problems, the updates
> don't
> do so well. OS10.2.3 is really just bug fixes, enhancements and more
> drivers
> for peripherals. Nothing to be afraid of it you are in good shape. It
> is
> nothing as drastic as Jaguar on a pair of CDs; it's just a regular
> automatic
> Software Update item. It works fine on my old beige box. I can run two
> optical drives, FireWire and USB, at the same time with 10.2.3.
>
> You might like FruitMenu, which cascades folders many levels deep
> downward
> to the right out of the Apple Menu, just like NOW Menus and then Action
> Menus used to do. I put aliases of my partitions in FruitMenu, as well
> as
> folders containing all my OS9 apps and OSX apps. You can do this in the
> Dock, but it gets a little cluttered, plus the hierarchies that arise
> out of
> the Dock don't work so well for two reasons. First, the dock
> hierarchies
> flow upwards, which is an unnatural direction of flow. Second, because
> the
> Dock is in the middle of the screen, the hierarchies don't go very far
> before having to swap sides, jumping back and forth, which is again
> not a
> good flow. FruitMenu is cheap shareware from Unsanity Software
> (unsanity.com), and I have used it for the past year. I used NOW Menus
> and
> Action Menus so long that I could not navigate a Mac without FruitMenu.
>
> Allan Atherton
>
>
>
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