26 September 2009 at 12:39 am
juna
Dock.app in Mac OS 10.5 and 10.6 (Leopard and Snow Leopard) have a ugly 2D docks (if you turn off the “fancy” dock when its position at the bottom, or if you position the dock on either side of your screen). They have a thick border and rounded corners that make for an over-sized looking background.
Luckily, these borders are just .png files inside the Dock.app resources, so I’ve sharpened the appearance of the dock by thinning the border and squaring the corners, like so:
modified dock
and to make it easier to do the mod every time i re-install mac os, I’ve put it all in a script:
download: dock-mod.zip
20 May 2009 at 4:51 pm
juna
Finder needs some power features. For example, the spotlight search bar shouldn’t be for spotlight…spotlight is system-wide, so why have a box for it at the local finder window level? That search box should behave like the iTunes search box or the Safari search box, as more like a display filter.
Or how about a terminal command box at the bottom of finder to do quick commands in the local folder? Maybe this would be a non-issue if I were more savvy with context menus and things…
In short, it would be nice to have Finder be more integrated into the unix sublevel.
Oh, also, bring back the Tiger behavior for Finder windows remembering their last view-mode! On what planet is it logical to make every subsequent instance of Finder behave like the previous window, regardless of location??