t.ecksdee.org — "Stacks" was Leopard's only non-eyecandy change to the dock, and it had the potential to be pretty handy. However the way stacks are represented on the Dock (by top icon) completely ruins it. Here is the damn fine-looking solution (although this is how it should have been from the beginning).
Nov 10, 2007 View in Crawl 4
cglissonNov 11, 2007
I hope your being sarcastic... In other words:When a file that has been downloaded through Firefox gets dropped automagically into the "Downloads" Stack, the tray gets pushed back to the end of the line...
rudiger81Nov 11, 2007
Hate the fact that someone believes their opinion to be the right opinion. With the download stack it is really good to have the last file you downloaded on the top so it doesn't mean its completely useless. Doesn't suit all stacks though
jughead5150Nov 17, 2007
correction:No hack needed!1) Make an alias of your Apps folder2) Drag alias to desktop3) Drop alias on you Apps stack4) repeat for docs stack
satansspatulaDec 5, 2007
Why couldn't we still have the old folder behavior, too? I liked the hierarchical popup menu. :-(
satansspatulaDec 5, 2007
Stacks are just folders. But if you put a folder within your stack, it shows up as a folder, rather than a pop-up sub-stack.The old method, in contrast, allowed you to have a compact, simple, hierarchical structure. I was excited by the look of stacks, but then appalled at the loss of the old hierarchy view.
satansspatulaDec 5, 2007
Write an app (or script) which gets run by cron every x seconds, counts the number of items in the Downloads folder, then generates and writes out a fresh icon containing the number. Based on my experience here, the dock seems to dynamically pick up and display changes like that...