Why do you place every single app in your dock?

[qwikstreet]

It drives me nuts sometimes when I see someone's desktop and their dock takes the whole length of the screen. All this so they can have every app and folder right there in front of you.

I, mean, I like the quick simplicity of starting or accessing something, but try using a multi dock like DockFun to clean up the look.

I don't know if that is the minimalist in me coming out.

[Randman]

Why are you so worried about other people's docks? Maybe your minimalist bothers others?

Personally, it took a little time adjusting to it when I came over from Classic, but once I got it working for me.
Personally, I leave the big 'uns in the dock (Safari, iTunes, iPhoto, DVD player, iSync, iBert, mail etc) and a few folders (such as my applications, my documents, a "temporary holding spot", my .mac drive, a folder for games, a folder for imaging/players such as photoshop, quicktime, vcdx, etc, a work folder for apps such as in design, quark, illustrator, etc.
All of that may sound like a lot, but it's not. And I use rocket launcher for menu bar access to other apps I use, but not all of the time (voice box, yum, space, spring cleaning, secure delete, palm desktop/ical, fuzzy clock, etc).

But to each his own. Vive le difference.

[qwikstreet]

They can do what they want but I seen this one desktop pic that had 89 icons on it.

Sad that I sat there and counted them. Oh well, my employer paid me for that time wasted.

[toast]

I have 17 apps and 3 folders in Dock, excl. Finder. Those the apps I use on a daily basis. I also need to drag and drop on them very often.

[qwikstreet]

I use DockFun and have a Dock for Daily,Internet, Design, Games, Utilities, and Entertainment.

[symphonix]

I have only 19 apps in my dock, and they are sorted by category. One of the great things about the dock is that it is very easy and very personal.

[Cat]

I've got only the apps I use daily in my doc: Finder, iCal, Eudora, Safari, Camino, TeXShop, Start OpenOffice, OmniGraffle, iTunes, System Preferences, Terminal, X11, FinkCommander and then links & folders for the Desktop, Applications and the Trash. Doc's set to be quite small.
My desktop however tends to get quite cluttered with downloads & folder & icons. I have to tidy up a lot ...

[Randman]

my employer paid me for that time wasted

Is your employer hiring??

No I once had a dock headache. I was trashing a bunch of files, but the trash can did one of those little dodge moves and I ended up dropping like 30+ files into the dock.