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.
This is what I do. I have 4 folders on my dock - a folder for Microsoft's RDC, which contains several RDC configs for the several servers I use; a folder of 4D Clients for the various database servers and versions I must contact; /Applications is on my Dock; and ~/Apps is on my Dock. See, instead of adding 3rd party apps to /Applications, I add them to /LocalApps or ~/Apps (these are NeXT-isms I choose to continue).
Only my most-used apps are in the Dock: Finder, Activity Viewer, Mail, PulpFiction, StickyBrain, Safari, X11, Address Book, iCal, Dreamweaver, MS Word, MS Excel, RBrowser, and Sherlock. All else I get to via one of the four "Apps" folders on my Dock.
Now, I have the luxury of having not used OS 9, so all I know is "OS X rocks." I don't know or understand any of this "OS 9 Forever" stuff...
Eagle
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