Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Your Name Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.vintage Subject: Re: Early History of Mac OS X Dock Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:17:09 +1300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 68 Message-ID: References: <1r61e82.30179c2rpt6sN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 22:17:10 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a06ba985312e2eaf2fc9223dfc8c5e92"; logging-data="1504676"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/6jEetxDbikOqa7sGekvSjyqjTVdXlxYc=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Yv0PbrkRFqVc0UO2hN6lsO7tvDU= Bytes: 3698 On 2025-01-12 07:44:08 +0000, Liz Tuddenham said: > Your Name wrote: >> On 2025-01-11 12:30:59 +0000, Liz Tuddenham said: >>> D Finnigan 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. >> > > 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 WindowMizer For older Macs / MacOS X versions there is: 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.