[sisenor]

In terminal, type these two lines:

defaults write com.apple.Dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock

This won't give you the Tiger dock, what it will do is give you the Leopard left/right screen position dock but on the bottom. To get back to the default 3D dock, just replace the 'YES' above with 'NO' and follow with the second line.

This really made my night, I wasn't at all impressed with the new dock. Credit goes to a post on macupdate..

latuh

 

[shigzeo]

i will be getting leapard in december when my debts are paid or so and definately i will use this command - that 3d looks okay as a picture shot, but using it day after day would be annoying.

 

[kovacs]

Ok great thanks, is there any way to disable the transparency of the menu bar ?

 

[krmathis]

Not the least.
I think it looks great, and prefer its over the 10.4 dock...

 

[sisenor]

Quote:

Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif Not the least. I think it looks great, and prefer its over the 10.4 dock...

Well, that's what I thought too, until I used it myself...have you used it?

It's not horrible, it just really could have been done better IMO.

 

[krmathis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by sisenor /img/forum/go_quote.gif Well, that's what I thought too, until I used it myself...have you used it?

Yes, I have been running Leopard for more than one month (don't ask!

).
It was strange/different in the beginning, but I have now fully settled with it and enjoy the new look.

 

[sisenor]

Quote:

Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif Yes, I have been running Leopard for more than one month (don't ask! ). It was strange/different in the beginning, but I have now fully settled with it and enjoy the new look.

I just think the drop shadows are pretty bad
+ the wave thing on the dock floor adds to this excess
+ it doesn't handle a large quantity of icons as well as the old dock did (and I usually have a bunch of icons)
+ when I invoke dashboard with the 3D dock visible, the dashboard animation is choppy
+ the new running application designator (the little blue lights instead of the small black triangle) are cheesy
+ it is very dependent on your desktop picture

 

[archosman]

Did the install yesterday... doesn't bother me.

Anyone here running Parallels? Mine kind of runs a little clunky since the upgrade to Leopard.

Noticed that Onyx won't work. I bet Applejack probably won't either. Was able to transfer everything from my Carbon Copy Cloner over and works fine. Went ahead and ran Time Machine onto another partition. Took about an hour to copy 84 gigs over.

 

[Chef Medeski]

Quote:

Originally Posted by sisenor /img/forum/go_quote.gif In terminal, type these two lines: defaults write com.apple.Dock no-glass -boolean YES killall Dock This won't give you the Tiger dock, what it will do is give you the Leopard left/right screen position dock but on the bottom. To get back to the default 3D dock, just replace the 'YES' above with 'NO' and follow with the second line. This really made my night, I wasn't at all impressed with the new dock. Credit goes to a post on macupdate.. latuh

I sorta like the glass dock. It wasn't amazing but not bad. The blue orbs is truly what I love. They should be bigger though. This dock is pimp, Im goin have a hard time choosing. Thanks for the tip though! It should really be a system preference. I hate how Apple tries to hide everything they don't think we can handle.

 

[Contrastique]

I like the way the new dock looks, not realll special but it looks nice, only I have my dock at the left of my screen because of Photoshop and the glass-thingy doesn't work then!

 

[rhythmicmoose]

I thought I'd hate it but I really don't have a problem with it. I'm glad that windows still respect the Dock's space, even if it is an invisible border now with the 3D dock. I'm more upset about the menubar, which looks very flat and boring with my favorite desktop picture, and Stacks, which I'm not totally sold on yet. Being able to drag things out from them is great, but I miss being able to get to anything through the contextual menu.

Apparently the new version of CandyBar will offer Dock skinning. It should be cool to see what people come up with.

 

[rhythmicmoose]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Contrastique /img/forum/go_quote.gif I like the way the new dock looks, not realll special but it looks nice, only I have my dock at the left of my screen because of Photoshop and the glass-thingy doesn't work then!

You keep it on the left because of Photoshop? I keep mine on the bottom because of Photoshop...

 

[bperboy]

No problems with it. I love leopard. Except for Front Row and no compilation sorting. Thats Bull****.

 

[ojnihs]

god damn it i need to get leopard

 

[bperboy]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ojnihs /img/forum/go_quote.gif god damn it i need to get leopard

Yes you do!