10.5: Use Tiger's Dock in Leopard |
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Like some others out there, I am not a huge fan of Stacks and miss the Dock's old functionality (i.e. being able to browse folders' contents by Control-clicking). I thought to myself, "The Dock is just an application in the /System » Library » CoreServices folder, so can't I just use Tiger's Dock.app?"When I upgraded to Leopard, I backed up to an external drive and did an Erase & Install so I had a copy of Tiger's Dock.app handy. I used both the Finder and Terminal to do the switch (but I'm sure you can use one or the other completely).[robg adds: What follows should be considered highly experimental. Using the 10.4 dock in 10.5 may have unforeseen issues. If you choose to implement this hint, that decision is yours. Proceed cautiously, and make sure you've got a good backup before you start! Read on for the relatively simple how-to...]
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