Recently, Tim Collier wrote:
>> Dock shmock - I want my Launcher back! I had all my applications
>> neatly divided up - by category - into pages on the Launcher. Now I
>> have to hunt through ALL my applications for the one I want on the
>> Dock - which either takes up valuable screen space ON TOP OF
>> EVERYTHING ELSE or is hidden where I can't see it. And with it
>> hidden, it's always popping up in the way every time I move the
>> cursor near the bottom of the screen (having it at the sides is
>> unacceptable for me).
>>
>Try this: Keep your most used apps on the dock: Safari, Mail, iTunes etc
>but open up the finder and drag the Applications Folder down to the dock on
>the side of the divider next to the trash can. Then anytime you need an
>application hold down the mouse on this folder icon and up will pop the
>entire listing of your Applications folder.
Two ideas:
In case you don't like the whole Application folder being on the
Dock, you can also customize a folder to put there. For example, I have a
few items I think of as "Tools" such as my text editor, MacLinkPlus,
etc.--I don't want to have to search for these when I need them. I
created a folder called "Tools" in my Applications folder, and put
aliases of the items I want into it. Then I dragged this Tools folder to
the Dock. Simple! Whenever I need one of these apps, I can click & hold
on the Tools folder, then select the item I'm looking for. On the other
hand, that item is still in the Application folder in case I'm ever
looking for it there.
Second, a program I really loved in OS 9 is DragThing, which is like
the Launcher but much, much nicer. There is an OS X version which gets
great reviews (look for it on Versiontracker) although I haven't tried it
yet--I'm still deciding if I need it. Anyway, this might be a great
solution for you. In that case, I would pare down the Dock to just the
most basic, most-used items to keep it very simple, then use DragThing to
sort the other things into your own categories.
Hope this helps!
--Anna
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