Tag Archive for 'stacks'

Stacks Overlays

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Daz
on November 11, 2007
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This is a great idea to improve the appearance (and usability) of stacks in Leopard.

Stacks is pretty much Leopard’s only non-eyecandy change to the dock, and it had the potential to be pretty handy, but the fact that the icon representing the stack is whatever the top file in the folder happens to be really ruins it (for me at least). However, if you haven’t yet given up on stacks and thrown them off your dock, there is a solution: overlaying stacks icons.

In essence, these are just small-ish semi-transparent icons that are permanently our top icon. This picture explain it best (before & after):

stacks-overlay.jpg

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Use Folder Icons in Leopard Stacks

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Daz
on November 6, 2007
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Peter N Lewis:

The Leopard Dock shows folders as a layer of icons, which is crazy for folders as you cannot easily recognize a folder based on its contents. Especially crazy when the folders have recognizable icons already!

Of course, here at Stairways we prefer to find solutions to problems rather than just grumble, so here is a trivial solution. Simply create an alias to the folder, name it to sort as the first icon, and put it in the folder.

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Update: Here’s another way to achieve the same idea, but with icons sorted by date - i.e. the downloads stack.