On Jun 11, 2005, at 10:39 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > Then why Schoun's elaborate explanation and telling you to go into > the library folder to put the dock on top,if it does only hide the > dock anyway and not disable it? The hiding you can have with less > effort. But as you explain, it would make the dock pop up no matter > where it is located. I simply was confused about Schoun's answer > to your question. ( I don't run Tiger as yet) - Instead of a > flyswatter you might try to sweet talk it, it is less violent and > the soft response might change the dock's stubborn behavior!
Marta, several applications make use of the entire screen and often times all of use run the mouse to the edges of the screen to get to a palette, or resize a window. Just hiding the Dock on the left, right, or bottom can still cause the Dock to accidentally pop up when the user goes to far with their mouse. Putting it up on top hides it behind the Menu Bar, so there is virtually no chance that the Dock will appear (actually, there is a one pixel wide line that if you are VERY careful, you can get it to pop up). The Dock continues to run, which the system needs, but the user does not see it, which was the intended goal. My explanation was: Locate the file Open the file Make the change Save the file Log out and back in to see the changes -s | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
