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On 2025-01-12 07:44:08 +0000, Liz Tuddenham said:
> Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>> On 2025-01-11 12:30:59 +0000, Liz Tuddenham said:
>>> D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> article by James Thomson January 4, 2025
>>>> https://tla.systems/blog/2025/01/04/i-live-my-life-a-quarter-century-at
>>>> -a- time/
>>>> 
>>>> ---
>>>> 
>>>> So, we are coming up on a little anniversary for me this weekend. On
>>>> the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user
>>>> interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo.
>>>> 
>>>> Towards the end of the presentation, he showed off the Dock. You all
>>>> know the Dock, it's been at the bottom of your Mac screen for what
>>>> feels like forever (if you keep it in the correct location, anyway).
>>> 
>>> I'm sorry to add a note of dissent, but the Dock was one of the main
>>> things which made me decide not to install OSX.  The Launcher and
>>> Windowshade were far more useful and intuitive - things stayed where you
>>> put them so your fingers always knew where to find them.  That is why I
>>> am still using a Beige G3 with OS 8.6 as my main office machine.
>> 
>> You can get Dock apps for Classic versions of MacOS. "A-Dock" is
>> perhaps the best of them.
>> <http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/a-dock-301>
> 
> That's the last thing I should want to do, why ruin a good operating
> system?  I want to completely remove the Dock from OSX and use a
> combination of Launcher and Windowshade.

Potentially having a Dock in Classic MacOS helps to get used to using 
it in newer MacOS versions.



> 'Minimising' things into the Dock is like having a dilligent but stupid
> secretary who removes every sheet of paper from your desk except the one
> you are reading and files it away in an ever-changing filing system that
> you have to search by pictures to get it back.   With Windowshade you
> just rolled up the window so you could see what was underneath it - then
> you knew exactly what it was and where to find it when you wanted it
> again.

You didn't mention minimizing in the original post, although I don't 
think A-Dock does that anyway.

There are Windowshade apps for MacOS X, but I've never used them:

   Deskovery
   <https://www.neomobili.com/products/deskovery/>

   WindowMizer
   <https://www.windowmizer.com/windowmizer>


For older Macs / MacOS X versions there is:

   WindowShade X
   <http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/windowshade-x>


You can't remove the Dock from MacOS X because it is expected to be 
there by the OS and many apps. Best you can do is hide it. Many of the 
"Dock replacement" apps simply hide the Dock.