Can't wait for Apple to add a "list" view to stacks? Pinning away for hierarchical menus and the "good-old-days" of yesteryear?
Try OldFolder, an application by Justin Hawkwood that revives Tiger's old-school hierarchical menu interface for a docked folder.
Just run it, select the folder you want it to use and... boom! Now you can right-click your folder and navigate all of those tricky navigational submenus to your heart's content.
I guess old habits die hard.
Since quite a few of you liked the Even BETTER Icons For Stacks quick tip, I thought I'd link you over to TUAW, which now has a tutorial for making your own customized drawer icons using nothing more than a blank drawer file and Preview.
Here's the link: UAW Tutorial: Custom Stack Drawer Icons
This version combines combines a custom set of icons with the file-within-a-folder technique illustrated in my previous tip, giving you a virtual set of file drawers that look a lot cleaner than Apple's file-pasted-on-the-folder design.
I've already changed my dock to use them and they look great.
I also think it's a bit funny that so many people are working so hard to change the look-and-feel of Stacks. That being the case, I think that Apple needs to listen to its customers and consider that maybe, just maybe, they got this one wrong. (Now if we could just figure out a way to get hierarchical menus back...)
Anyway, since this tip isn't mine I'll just link directly to it. Enjoy.
New to OS X Leopard, "Stacks" has fans and foes alike, with questions on whether or not it's an improvement on Tiger's docked folders and popup menus hotly debated.
With a new post entitled "Why Leopard’s Stacks Fails", and with an "open letter" calling for Apple to bring back the old right-click hierarchical-menu implementation, the site StringFoo obviously falls into the foe category.
Why? Let's take a look.
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