Re: The Excellent Dock...

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:00:34 -0500, BreadWithSpam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote (in
article <yob3bbz8fz1.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@xxxxxxx> writes:

My own preference is for what I'll dub a "minimalist" dock which contains
only icons for currently active applications and icons for deliberately
hidden windows. If I were to put all my applications in the dock it would
become, in my mind, far too cluttered to be easily used. As for launching

I would do that too - except for one thing - the order in which they will
then appear in the dock is the order in which you launched them. Instead,
certain apps that I use all the time, I keep them in the dock whether they
are running or not so that when they *are* running, they'll be where I
want them.

Admittedly true, but I tend to not have many applications concurrently
running, so the order in which they appear is not, at least to me, of much,
if any, significance.

In particular, I like the finder to be left-most, then Mail.app, then
whichever web browser I'm using (I'm giving OmniWeb another real shot now
- it seems to have gotten a lot more stable again). Then NetNewswire, then
chat program(s) iChat, Adium, etc etc.

applications I now use Spotlight. Click on Command-Space to bring up
Spotlight, type a few characters to select the desired application (say
"wor" > for Microsoft Word -- the characters must appear contiguously in
the

When Tiger came out, I switched from launching with Quicksilver to
launching with Spotlight. A little while back, I switched back and wired
the cmd-space key back to QS. And I'm very very happy with it. It does a
hell of a lot more stuff (I'm pretty sure, for example, that it can vastly
improve my navigation amongst running apps, but I pretty much just switch
to them as if I were launching them).





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James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@xxxxxxx

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