Like the macOS Dock but for macOS System 7

Re:Like the macOS Dock but for macOS System 7 by dreamcompiler on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @11:14PM (#35810813)

I loved DragThing and hate the Dock. They look superficially similar but they function quite differently. I don't remember the details because it's been too long since I used DragThing, but in DragThing it just worked smoother and more intuitively.

I used to do some hack that made the Dock invisible because I found it to be intrusive and useless. IOW I preferred using the Mac with no docklike thing at all to using the Mac with the Dock. Apple long ago made my hack stop working so now I just live with the stupid Dock.

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Re:Like the macOS Dock but for macOS System 7 by deaddodo on Thursday May 04, 2023 @01:16AM (#35811510)

> I used to do some hack that made the Dock invisible because I found it to be intrusive and useless.

Is there any reason you don't just hide it and never use it?

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Re:Like the macOS Dock but for macOS System 7 by dreamcompiler on Thursday May 04, 2023 @06:05AM (#35813224)

Hiding it means it comes back if the mouse wanders to the "wrong" area of the screen. That's as good as it gets now.

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Re:Like the macOS Dock but for macOS System 7 by mnky9800n on Thursday May 04, 2023 @06:28AM (#35813369)

i remember when microsoft got rid of the start menu because you can just search for whatever you want anyways, and that is exactly what i do in osx too. Of course the start menu came back, but whether it is OSX or windows, all i do is a keyboard shortcut to bring up search to look for the app i want. So what I am left with is that as mad as me and everyone was that the start menu was going away microsoft was right.

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