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Smoked Glass Dock for Leopard - Much Nicer!

blambert.co.uk — By simply replacing 4 files you can completely alter how the dock looks. Try out this dark dock, it's much nicer.

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  • pmuse, on 11/01/2007, -34/+25Looks nice, but I'm sticking to the 2D dock.
    • wedges, on 10/31/2007, -12/+7you can do the flat dock in leopard‽‽‽‽‽
      • alevel27mage, on 10/31/2007, -2/+16>defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
        >killall Dock

        Type that in terminal. '>' = New line.
        • mrBitch, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1another neat tweak to the dock ( courtesy of macosxhints.com ) :
          " ... make the items in your dock slightly transparent when they are hidden, so you have a visual cue that they aren't active, in Terminal type:
          defaults write com.apple.dock showhidden -bool true "
      • Firehed, on 10/31/2007, -2/+11Looks like someone just discovered the interrobang. You only need one.

        And yes - put it on either side of the screen.
      • JEWestbrookJR, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1I don't like the 2d dock. For over a year now, I have used avant-window-navigator on linux to emulate a dock and I tweaked it to make it 3d. It looks more sleek.
    • casemon, on 10/31/2007, -1/+7http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071 ...
    • MrSlumberjack, on 10/31/2007, -4/+1why the *****.... nevermind.
  • DaffyDuck, on 11/05/2007, -29/+23Now, someone figure out how to round the corners.
    • over90000, on 10/31/2007, -26/+10lol people are digging you down without realizing you are one of the biggest apple fanbois around.
      • DaffyDuck, on 10/31/2007, -1/+23I know. I'm being shunned by my own compadres. Sniff sniff
    • meatmcguffin, on 10/30/2007, -0/+3If you want the corners of the menubar rounded, theres an app called Displaperture that'll do it

      For some reason, it's been driving me nuts even though it's about twelve pixels
      • DaffyDuck, on 10/31/2007, -2/+1No, I want the back corners of the 3D dock rounded.
        • iChainsaw, on 10/31/2007, -3/+1I thought you were talking about the rounded corners on the the screen (whis is a long standing characteristic of mac os)...now that you are just asking for something stupid...*SHUN*
        • DaffyDuck, on 11/09/2007, -0/+5http://tinyurl.com/2nn76c

          There's a visual. I like it. Maybe others don't but if someone figures out how to modify the dock to look like this, I'll be one of the first to make mine look like this.
      • mastershake329, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1Goddamnit dude, I didnt even realize that till right now. Now its pissing me off lol.
    • drgmdp, on 10/31/2007, -1/+1***** rounded corners. i waited two years until they gone away. don't call them back.
    • ktonini, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2It's just a transparent png, just make the corners completely transparent. easy.
  • Iwantawii, on 11/01/2007, -4/+94It looks nice in the screenshot but notice that there's just a flat grey background. This smoked Dock doesn't stand out as well against dark desktop images.
  • meshman, on 10/31/2007, -62/+10That's almost as nice as ObjectDock for the PC.
    • advancedOption, on 10/31/2007, -4/+25I used ObjectDock, it's horrible and glitchy. So shhhhh...
    • hmunkey, on 10/31/2007, -4/+11Rocketdock is better.
      • alamandrax, on 11/01/2007, -2/+1http://punksoftware.com/rocketdock/
        Yup. and if you want virtual desktops, www.codeplex.com/vdm
        It's still buggy and in development, but pretty decent. Doesn't work with RocketDock though, hides Rocketdock behind new desktop objects.
    • iChainsaw, on 10/31/2007, -0/+7i'm using object dock pro right now...i paid for it...and i wish i had the leopard dock right now.
    • joepaterno, on 10/31/2007, -12/+0There's an app for Windows that nicer than on Mac? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Dig down! Dig down!
      • shawnz, on 10/31/2007, -2/+3windows makes better grayscale pie charts about "just kicking it" than mac
    • drgmdp, on 10/31/2007, -2/+1if there's something i love about windows is that if you want you can add that horrible dock. but it's not there by default.
  • SaTaNKiLLeR, on 10/30/2007, -17/+3Nice.
  • jklyon, on 11/03/2007, -102/+11FRONT PAGE AT THIRTY DIGS?

    Are you kidding me?

    This is just getting ridiculous.
    • Mudcrutch, on 11/01/2007, -3/+82Different users have different weight on their diggs from past activity. It's an algorithm. There is no set # of diggs to get on the front page.
    • theprez, on 11/01/2007, -3/+32-30 diggs for jklyon's useless comment? This is getting ridiculous.
  • HillerMylife, on 07/24/2008, -12/+77I much prefer:

    defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
    killall Dock
    • nphase, on 10/31/2007, -1/+40At least now we know how to make our own dock skins?
      • Audacitor, on 10/31/2007, -0/+4Yep, and the images used for the no-glass dock are available for editing as well, so we might see some new shapes as well as colors...
    • willemmulder, on 10/31/2007, -12/+3you've been reading the Ars Technica review, now didn't you?
    • madkahta, on 10/31/2007, -12/+4This is a huge improvement; the default 3D dock in Leapord is ugly - Apple has always been about clean, sexy, simple interfaces - why did they add all that clutter... ?
      • Elranzer, on 10/31/2007, -11/+3They got Vista-envy with Leopard for some reason.
      • comradeTJH, on 10/31/2007, -9/+2"Apple has always been about clean, sexy, simple interfaces* uuhm... you're on the same planet right? They don't even know the words 'clean' and 'simple' anymore since OS 9 was abandoned
      • energizerrabbit, on 10/31/2007, -2/+6From a web designer standpoint, "clean, sexy, simple" does NOT equal solid colors and sharp angles. It does equal intuitive interface (apple has that down), and a unified and themed appearance.
        • drgmdp, on 11/01/2007, -3/+2yeah, but we all know web designers are a little... weird. in a bad way.
    • chubbRock, on 11/03/2007, -0/+5I did this....now how do i undo it? defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO
      killall Dock ??? thanks. wanna put back the default
  • PRlME, on 10/31/2007, -33/+9so this is the stuff thats so ground shattering for mac people that it ends up on digg
    • MacParrot, on 10/31/2007, -6/+22And apparently so ground shattering that trolls have to take time out of their day to comment on it
  • Stewartpewart, on 10/30/2007, -11/+2What a shame I like my dock burned.
  • LordSkywalker, on 10/31/2007, -8/+53Dugg for Domo-kun.
    • Icetype, on 10/31/2007, -1/+1Is there a program that uses Domokun for the icon? or is that just a cool custom you think?
      • MacPPC, on 10/31/2007, -0/+10Adium does, you only need to check out their extras and install it
      • kriuz, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1it's one of the icons for Adium, there's a lot of different icons you can use.
    • TommySalami, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3My Adium icon as well
      My asian friends all tend to love it
  • uberamd, on 10/31/2007, -14/+9Its not as nice as the 2D but I prefer it over Apples attempt to create a new look for the dock.
  • bluenullity, on 10/31/2007, -8/+24I would stick with the glass dock if I could change the little blue light to something actually visible.
  • Xtracti0n, on 10/31/2007, -16/+8and for the Windows User Try rocketdock.com !!! woooooo, maybe i should move this to the top!! omg...irrelevent news.
  • over90000, on 10/31/2007, -17/+9Apple sure is making it "simple" for people to customize the appearance of their OS.
    • se1zure, on 10/31/2007, -4/+24because it's so easy for me to alter the appearance of the start bar in vista
      • over90000, on 10/31/2007, -11/+3Why do you have to bring Windows in this? Unlike MS, Apple is the one which is always going on about the "simplicity" of doing things. What windows does, is of no importance. You're just taking the attention away from Apple's shortcomings.
        • MacParrot, on 10/31/2007, -2/+4"What windows does, is of no importance."
          No comment required
          • se1zure, on 10/31/2007, -1/+3this is where over90000 says: "touche"
          • over90000, on 10/31/2007, -1/+3no this is where I say "take everything in context".
        • se1zure, on 10/31/2007, -2/+3I have never seen an apple ad boasting how easy it is to change the color of the dock. They don't WANT you to change the color of the dock. There is a reason they don't have built in support for theme managers. because 99.99% of all 3rd party themes are glitchy pieces of garbage (for both windows and osx).
      • Elranzer, on 10/31/2007, -2/+4Actually it is pretty easy to alter the Start bar's opacity and color (which is all this dock hack does). It's right in the Display properties.
    • mywhitenoise, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1Use CandyBar. There's several programs out there that make it very easy to customize your OS. Nothing looks better than the original in my opinion.
      • chrislee149, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1Though it's a great program, CandyBar is currently incompatible with Leopard.
      • Verdanic, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2Not compatible with Leopard yet, I need it to be so I can properly get rid of these ***** default folder icons. I keep my dock icons at about 15px and they're absolutely impossible to read without setting magnification to something that defeats the purpose of the small icons in the first place.

        .. and why the hell is the applications folder so retarded? I still can't get over that, I don't understand Apple's thought process on many things in Leopard.
    • platypibri, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1... still like the Mac better.
    • Billions, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1trolling again, 90000?
  • ladbroke, on 10/31/2007, -4/+2Looks great, but really, I think everything about Leopard is dark enough.

    I'm not exactly yearning for brushed metal, but when all your windows are dark grey, it draws your eye away from all the information on the title bar.
    • birdieb23, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1dark grey? the grey is hardly dark is quite light and metallic imho
      • ladbroke, on 10/31/2007, -1/+4I'd prefer the foreground windows and background windows to flip colors, so the background windows are darker than the foreground ones. It's more eye-catching.
    • Firehed, on 11/01/2007, -1/+2And into the bright content that's in the middle of the window. Which is a good thing.
  • naonao, on 10/31/2007, -6/+9I'd love to know how to get the dock back to tiger look. I don't have Leopard yet so I can't test it out, but Tiger looked so much nicer in every way.
    • mywhitenoise, on 10/30/2007, -1/+1I think that's what the first comment is about. The 2D dock.
  • acu8509, on 10/31/2007, -5/+31dugg for "Untitled Document"
  • dasutin, on 11/01/2007, -6/+60no digg for Real Player :(
    • InitialDMP5, on 11/02/2007, -3/+5I have real player on my computer only for my online classes. For some reason my school still uses Real Player as the format of the movies its uses. I hate it. But I make sure it isn't hanging out in the dock reminding me its there...
  • Spoomeister, on 10/31/2007, -19/+3Looks like someone took the Vista sidebar, made it lay down on the bottom of the screen, then had all the widgets stand up.
    Eventually, Apple's OS and Windows' OS will be visually indistinguishable from each other.
    • noahhoward, on 10/31/2007, -1/+16Or you know, maybe the took the dock they've had for years and made that lay down.
      • mrBitch, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1Shhh, you don't want to scare Spoomeister into thinking that Vista might have " borrowed " from OSX ... He may never recover when he finds that out...
  • modix, on 10/31/2007, -2/+6Is there any hope that Leopard will include a dock display option? Like including past incarnations of the docks?

    Or is there actual coding difference between Tiger and Leopard docks? I couldn't imagine why a skinning option would be hard to add.
    • beanlambert, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1It's not at all and I'm sure someone will have made an app to do it very soon.
      • sebbyoquinn, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2Apparently we'll be able to customize the dock with the soon to be released Candybar 3
  • HacKing, on 10/31/2007, -12/+0Uh oh. OLD NEWS ALERT! Me and the guys at MHN have been doing various colors for a while now. Here's an example of 1 guy with an orange dock:
    http://mandarin.quickshareit.com/share/picture1582 ...
    If you don't know what MHN is, don't ask me to tell you.
    • Slungsolow, on 10/31/2007, -0/+6a while now != less than an hour ago.
      • VitaminH, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3BURN.

        P.S. MHN = Mental Health Network?
    • wheresthevan, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3Man Hugs Nation?
    • ryan899, on 10/31/2007, -1/+1j00 are such a l33t h4x0r
    • dtreed, on 10/31/2007, -0/+0I tried to change the color, but I lost the glossy/reflective effect.
      Any tips or suggestions?
  • lukes, on 10/31/2007, -2/+15Hopefully someone will make a simple app that will let you switch dock themes, and modify the indicator image.
  • dirtyhand, on 10/31/2007, -10/+16Whats wrong with the default look? I love it.
    • jasongdx, on 10/31/2007, -2/+20There's nothing "wrong" with it. Some people prefer otherwise, that's all.
      • Firehed, on 10/31/2007, -0/+25You must be the only person on Digg that understands and accepts the idea that people prefer different things. Please continue to set a good example; others, please learn from it.
    • Audacitor, on 10/31/2007, -3/+3While I don't digg you down for liking it, I do digg you down for not recognizing what other people might see as flaws. All the reflections, as well as the app icons partially sticking out of the dock can make it hard to look at f or some people.
  • PaulPinfield, on 10/30/2007, -4/+1Love this effect
  • raimon, on 10/31/2007, -6/+0Wow and by doing
    "defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
    killall Dock"
    now the windows work flawlessly while going through the aladdin effect on my Macbook 1.1!
  • HacKing, on 10/31/2007, -8/+0http://mac-hacker.net/forum
    Free Customized Dock... Sign up and send KingNerd a PM...
    You can ask for any image.
    Example:
    http://ugli.quickshareit.com/share/picture1a8c6d.p ... = Haloween Docks.
  • DaffyDuck, on 11/06/2007, -2/+51I have an idea for the 3D dock. When in autohide mode, have the shelf slide (retract) away and the icons fall off the edge. Pure eye candy I know but it would be fun at least for a few minutes.
    • jayfehr, on 10/31/2007, -0/+10I dugg you up for the creativity, but out of curiosity, how would you get them back up. In a similarly creative fashion
      • DaffyDuck, on 10/31/2007, -1/+19The dock would slide back out and the icons would just appear and blink a couple of times like the Super Mario guy coming back to life after falling off a cliff.
        • gasin, on 10/31/2007, -1/+1so trippy dude!
        • wellyuk, on 10/31/2007, -2/+3Or! Or! Get this! Or they could drop down from the top of the screen and bounce into place! ***** yeah!
        • dacjames, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3Brilliant idea Daffy, now get to hacking
      • TheTSArt, on 10/31/2007, -0/+6The icons could pop up from the bottom before the shelf appears and then land on it. You know kind of like the way the icons would bounce to get your attention.
  • jimmys, on 10/30/2007, -2/+0This looks nice but when I have Safari up, the reflection from my browser on the dock is rather ugly, I switched back to the default. If I could keep the reflections from open apps off the dock, then I'd be happy.
  • anthaneezy, on 10/30/2007, -7/+2"Smoked glass"...

    I thought of some crackhead in a darkened corner of a room getting his fix. lol
  • ronin691, on 10/30/2007, -8/+1Very cool. I would buy a new mac just to be able to use that. Way better than lame XP "tool bar"
  • jellygraph, on 10/31/2007, -9/+3Did Apple just rip that off from Avant Window Navigator? I could have sworn I've seen that ages ago for Linux... whats the deal?
    • dandiemer, on 10/31/2007, -0/+5I think AWN created a similar theme after the Leopard screenshots started to leak.
  • pabloD, on 10/31/2007, -2/+8Actually, the dock doesn't bother me as much as the transparent menu bar. I mean, wtf??? That's just plain retarded, especially if your destop picture doesn't play nice with the transparency. I can see no reason for it. Let me know when someone figures out how to change it back.
    • beanlambert, on 10/30/2007, -0/+0http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26076/opaquem ...
      • xixor, on 10/31/2007, -0/+4Sure, there are ways around this, but I don't think it should be up to the users to have to hack the OS GUI to their liking. As a relatively new apple user, I think that the lack of options in the GUI is staggeringly low. The only change the user can make is the relatively small one of setting the scroll bars and buttons to be grey, or blue.
        • iChainsaw, on 10/31/2007, -4/+4i'm sorry there is no silver, olive green, and blue themes....
        • bbqsalad, on 10/31/2007, -1/+1or hot pink.
    • xixor, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2I too dislike the transparent menu bar, if you use a colored desktop wallpaper pic, it looks hokey
  • AquaOSX, on 11/02/2007, -8/+97I'll probably get -20 diggs for critiquing a something people want to love, but as a professional graphic and interaction designer, here's my 2 cents.

    The default glass dock has quite a few problems. First off, there is not enough contrast between the active process lights and the dock's surface. It's incredibly difficult to see which applications are running and which applications are not.

    Secondly, the doc is visually complicated and that hinders the speed in which people can track their eyes to an icon. The visual hierarchy has a ton of elements overlapping each other -- an "s-curve," individual icon reflections, window reflections, drop shadows drawn on icons, drop shadows rendered behind icons, a desktop background that's visible over the top half of icons, etc. These are all fairly basic examples of bad graphic design. I'm not saying the dock needs to look boring, but Apple could have made something that was both attractive and smart. That's harder to pull off, but that's the way to go. At the very least, this little patch removes the s-curve, minimizes some of those icon shadows, and makes the process lights easier to see.

    Lastly, Stacks are somewhat of a disaster. Stack icons are insanely confusing. The dock is something that heavily relies upon iconography. Users can't depend on tracking the cursor to a fixed position because the dock resizes, and users can't totally rely upon text labels because those are only available upon roll over. It's really important for Apple to make sure icons are a highly effective communication tools. Stacks produce muddy layered icons that often change. Moreover, stacked documents can be mistaken for docked documents (try it, put one document in your download stack... it looks like a docked document, not a document within a stack).

    I could go on and on. The stack menu, the lack of traditional popup menus, etc. The Dock is now host to a number of amazingly bad design decisions. I can only hope that Apple fixes these problems via software update, and not an OS revision that we have to buy in 12 months.

    • iChainsaw, on 11/02/2007, -1/+22See everyone, if you want to make your case; this is how you do it. One of the best comments backing up an opinion i have seen on digg. Dugg.
    • kodybryson, on 11/03/2007, -12/+8I love how people get all pseudo-technical in trying to describe the "design deficiencies" of the new dock. As if Apple just willy nilly made the changes and didn't even think about it and doesn't have an in house design team. I find the dock and stacks perfectly easy to use. The icons are easy to see. The running process lights are clear. The new effects make my life easier and more fun.

      "I could go on and on."

      Yes, I believe that part is true.
      • AquaOSX, on 10/31/2007, -0/+10This really isn't "pseudo-technical." These are graphic and interaction design no-no's that are clearly documented within graphic and interaction design literature. Moreover, a lot of these questionable concepts can be reenforced with past quantitative and qualitative research. If you're interested in stuff like this you might want to check out out some work by Tufte, Raskin, and Buxton.

        Just because you have an in-house interaction design team, that doesn't mean everything you produce will be successful. Unfortunately, it's quite common for an in-house design department to have their work compromised by the software engineering dept, the product development dept., marketing dept., executive management, or a some weird idea an art director won't let go of.

        I've experienced this a number of times. After logically arguing your position without being an ass, and after user feedback has come in after the product ships, you should hopefully have enough ammunition to sway internal opposition.

        I'd like to say that I amazed when a bad design idea makes it's way all the way through prototyping and beta testing, but I'm not. Design illiteracy is the norm, and graphic / interaction designers are often at the low end of the corporate food chain.
    • fr34k5h0w, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3I agree with stacks icon. Maybe put the files in a vertical stack (viewed from the side) with the newest one sort of halfway standing up on top. It's kind of hard to describe what I'm thinking of, but make it more of a visual "stack" of files instead of a pile of documents and folders viewed from the top.
    • Shiner6, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2"The default glass dock has quite a few problems. First off, there is not enough contrast between the active process lights and the dock's surface. It's incredibly difficult to see which applications are running and which applications are not."

      So go ahead and use the steps in this file to change the "indicator_" files.
    • whiteyMcBrown, on 11/02/2007, -2/+6I'm also a professional designer and I design interfaces. I've done work for companies like McDonald's, Microsoft, GM, Panasonic, etc.. I happen to really like the look of the new dock. Despite what anyone says, design is most definitely subjective and "the rules" that so many people are referring to are safe areas that mediocre designers can play in. The best fashion designers, interface designers, architects, etc. break rules because they know better than the rules. There would be no progression without this. I do agree with you that the stacks could use icons. Maybe we could use something similar to labels so you can tell them apart instantly. Besides that I agree with Apple's design decisions. I think they made the dock more attractive. I think the icons are more recognizable because they now sit on the dock and their forms are easier to make out. I think the glowing arrows are just noticeable enough; not everything has to beat you over the head. If it were up to some people in here, everything would be so blatant so as to have no visual hierarchy. The transparency of the menu bar and the deeper drop shadows bring the application's window into focus... Don't be fooled into thinking that Apple didn't think this stuff out. Design is both emotional and subjective.
      • lampiaio, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1Your comment is so good that I actually saved it as a .txt file.
      • SuitCase874, on 11/03/2007, -0/+1You have bad taste, or you're judging the dock without care for usability. It's a ***** nightmare compared to what came before it, especially when combined with the form-over-function enhancements like Stacks.

        The Dock isn't something Apple should be doing "ooh cool!!" things to - don't you remember the magnified icon carousel effect that was turned off by default in 10.3? The Dock should be usable above all things as it is a critical part of the OS, and yet all Leopard did was make it harder to use and a bit shinier.

        I agree that aesthetics are important and that most people don't "get" that, but you really should use Leopard for a while (or take the word of people who use it harder than you) and accept that this made too many compromises in favour of cool reflections at the expense of ease of use.
    • mozzep, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3Also, with stacks, I want to select MULTIPLE items from the fan, not just one. And I agree with you about the blue orbs, they're too hard to see. Other than that, however, I find leopard an extensive upgrade from tiger, and better in most ways.
  • antitab, on 11/01/2007, -2/+30FYI: Remove these "scurve" images completely to have a fully reflective dock.
    http://mike.command-q.org/img/mirror.png
  • roberto_deneero, on 10/31/2007, -6/+1I'm sure we're just a few days away from 3rd party GUI edit on Leopard. I think the GUI took a huge step backward in 10.5. It wasn't even broke and they tried to fix it. Ooof. I always keep my dock on the right anyway, so no shiny thing for me...the dock looks better on the side anyway - more of a smoked transparent look. I find it hard to believe anyone actually keeps their dock on the bottom. It gets in the way of your scroll bars, etc in Word, Excel, etc and takes up valuable real estate down there. On the right, it's perfect - out of the way and always within reach.
    • scotsman, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1Or go to the left - I can't have it any other way. Agree that on the bottom it's a nuisance and hogs realestate. One other thing: set it to automatically hide.
    • zebesian, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3How is having the dock on the bottom blocking my view of scroll bars? I would think that having it on the side would do that. To each his own I guess.
  • xixor, on 10/31/2007, -12/+2I am wondering which programs those icons are for in the middle of the dock, that use the letters : Ps Ai Id Dw ? Anyone know?
    • beanlambert, on 10/31/2007, -0/+8Adobe Creative Suite CS3.

      Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Dreamweaver
    • iChainsaw, on 11/02/2007, -1/+6did you just ask that?
  • digid, on 10/31/2007, -4/+2I personally prefer the dock on the left of the screen with no magnification. The new look is elegant and simple. with 1400x900 resolution on my laptop doesn't it make sense to squish the dock in the 1400 pixels rather than the 900(which is already being squished even more due to the top menu bar)
  • gazzerh, on 10/31/2007, -2/+1I really like this change. It makes the blue orbs more prominent and the dock more user friendly while still maintaining some 'cool factor'
  • danny5025, on 10/31/2007, -4/+3I messed up. I accidentally deleted my backup files after changing the dock. Could any of you nice and friendly diggers upload the originals?
  • ismith, on 10/31/2007, -9/+4It still looks fugly...
  • damnyooneek, on 10/31/2007, -1/+1just did it it looks better
  • atsarang, on 10/31/2007, -1/+2can someone figure out how to mod spaces .... the blue squares are WEAK. something like expo in compiz-fusion where your desktop image comes up or at least change the color. thanks for this mod!!
    • echobucket, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Spaces.menu/Contents/Resources/SpacesBackground.pdf would be where I would start. It's a very weird looking PDF though.

      Edit: Never mind.. that's the background image for the Spaces menubar item.
      • atsarang, on 10/31/2007, -0/+0SOOO close! where do they hide this crap? figuring out where its located is pretty much the major hurdle.
  • nakile, on 10/31/2007, -3/+5You can sure change and customized a lot of stuff in OS X without the need for a 3rd party program. Kind of reminds me of Linux.
    • mrBitch, on 11/03/2007, -0/+3maybe OSX reminds you of Linux because it's based on BSD Unix ?
  • InitialDMP5, on 10/31/2007, -1/+1is there anyway to get the dock to look like it does when its on the sides of the screens? It has that new look that apple has been using in iPhoto menus and quicktime menus.
    • osxtreme, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES

      there you go man
    • Thud, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1Don't forget to follow that with "killall Dock" to make the change take effect.

      This is what I'm running right now... much cleaner looking than the reflective dock!
  • buzzert, on 10/31/2007, -7/+2Site's down!
    http://duggmirror.com
  • osxtreme, on 11/01/2007, -1/+2anyone have a mirror?
  • solidus636, on 11/01/2007, -8/+13Working mirror:
    http://www.blambert.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/smokedock/
  • ddcrandall, on 11/01/2007, -1/+16None of the mirrors above were working. Here's a picture of it, though:
    http://i.fosfor.se/i07/071030_2.jpg
    • robocop1, on 11/02/2007, -0/+2You are so kind, you're a kind man i can tell!
  • tbenathan, on 10/31/2007, -1/+2OK this looks awesome.
  • BeerRules, on 10/31/2007, -1/+2Nice, had an issue copying it into the directory, one file just wouldn't go in. I finally had to move the file to the trash and then replace it with the new one.
    • beanlambert, on 10/31/2007, -0/+0This happened to me as well.
    • digitalpencil, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1Same, I think it's the lower half of the shelf as mine keeps reverting randomly back to original.
      Switching back..
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