Re: Dock Preferences in Lion
Re: Dock Preferences in Lion
- Subject: Re: Dock Preferences in Lion
- From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 14:09:42 +0200
Le 20 août 2011 à 01:04, Luther Fuller a écrit :
> I replied to the list with this, but it may not be posted due to the pictures. So, here's your copy ...
>
> On Aug 19, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Axel Luttgens wrote:
>
>> I tried her with Lion, with a folder made by hand and populated with aliases to folders, and just got nice and very legible "sub-menus".
>>
>> What exactly is the naugthy behavior you are facing?
>
> Did you have these settings: (?)
> Sort by .................. Name
> Display as .............. Folder
> View Contents as ... List
>
> In 10.6.8 I get ...
>
> <Menu 10.6.8.png>
>
> The cursor is over the item "Applescript-users". Notice that the contents of the "Applescript-users" folder do not appear.
>
> The same type of menu in 10.7.1 displays ...
>
> <Menu 10.7.1.png>
>
> But now, the contents of the "Applescript-users" folder DO appear. And, if you move the cursor over one of the items in that list, you will see yet another sub-menu showing the contents of that folder. But the menu does not show other important information such as the mod-date and comments column in the sub-folders which the user needs to see.
>
> This shows the user much too much information. Confusing.
OK, thanks for the details.
Yes, I had the same settings and got the same behavior as you with Lion (full hierarchy), a behavior that appeared very natural to me (I'm seconding Christopher on that point).
In fact, I didn't remember that the dock doesn't follow aliases in Leopard/Snow Leopard when displaying the hierarchy, and thus didn't fully understand your message.
So, you don't want aliases to be followed… you could try this one:
defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool TRUE
but I'm not sure you're going to like it. ;-)
This perhaps raises the question of trying to go against the OS: for example, if you're devising an application for other people, you obviously can't force those users to live with a disabled feature. In other words, it could possibly be worth to consider other means to achieve the functionality you are looking for.
I guess Christopher's suggestion might be at least a partial answer, and has the advantage to be agnostic wrt OS versions.
What is your "specs sheet"? ;-)
Axel
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