How Do YOU Treat Your Dock?

[Amie]

Share your Dock idiosyncrasies, modifier app extensions, position, etc. Here's mine:

I love ClearDock and use it all the time, constantly matching and modifying the app triangle with whatever theme I'm using to suit my mood. I also use it to remove the opaque background of the Dock and give it that 3D floating appearance (very cool!). I keep my Dock in the bottom position and "hidden" until I mouse over it, then it pops up; when I take my pointer away, the Dock disappears again. I like this feature because it maximizes screen space. I keep all my frequently used apps in my Dock, and I have it centered on the bottom with icons fairly large (Dock expanded), and I use the genie effect.

That's my Dock. How 'bout yours?

[ora]

on a 12" pb:
left side, set to hide, starts very small with magnification to a medium size. (i keep it on the left as at the bottom it interferes with application windows which use status bars at the bottom, like word or safari).

I also activate the setting to make hidden apps semi transparent, so i know what is hidden and what just has no open windows.

[fryke]

Dock is
bottom
left
~36 px
set to hide, of course.

I'm using three "separators" (invisible icons with spaces as their names so they create some width between icons) to create four icon groups:

- Finder
- Dashboard
- Safari
- Mail.app
- Fetch
- Terminal
- NetNewsWire
- iChat
- TVbrowser

- BBEdit
- Pages
- TextEdit
- Bluetooth Transfer

- VLC
- Quicktime Player
- iTunes

- InDesign
- Illustrator
- Photoshop
- Golive
- Acrobat
- Distiller

... and then the apps launched but not fixed in the Dock.

[sirstaunch]

Funny, in all my time I've had my dock down the bottom and always showing. last night I put it onto the right side, then today it's on my left. Guess I'm just playing at this time, then this post came up, so be interesting to see what the majority are doing, should of been a poll LOL

[Rhisiart]

Originally Posted by fryke

I'm using three "separators" (invisible icons with spaces as their names so they create some width between icons) to create four icon groups.

How do you create these invisible icons?

[Giaguara]

The G5 .. 21" display has dock on left, not hiding (somehting I do only when space on screen is not an issue), with a bunch of apps. Normally I have far less apps on it. ([work] = applications used for work, not specified names)
So that has
finder - terminal - adium - [work] - mail - safari - [work] - [work] - address book - ical - [work] - stickies - dictionary - sys prefs - [work] - console - network utility - disk utility - final cut - photoshop - filemaker pro - devonagent - airport admin utility - ichat - [work] - neo office - shiira - camino - [work] - [work] - itunes - dashboard (which i never use from the dock) - [work] - flock -iphoto - preview - a folder with shortcuts to all of the apps - trash. And looks like time to clean the dock ...
eMac has less; down and hiding, far less than on the other mac - yet even there time to clean a bit. :-/

[Lt Major Burns]

bottom, pretty standard. ~36px icons, a bit of mgnification (not much), and there the whole time.

it goes finder....internet-things....music/media/ilife etc....office....creative suite...studio mx2004.....utilities and other apps.

[g/re/p]

I usually don't use the dock - i have it set to the top, which "permanently" hides it.

I use Quicksilver to launch my apps/progs/files - they launch quicker because no mouse is needed with this method, which is even more convenient on my Powerbook.

The rare times i need the dock, i use the
"option/control/D" key sequence to unhide it.