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moonmonkey · Mar 27, 2003, 05:18 AM

After seeing all of those dock screenshots, it was wondering if everybody has their dock at the bottom, or did they just do it to save board space.

I dress to the left, where does your dock go?

Zadian · Mar 27, 2003, 06:35 AM

Originally posted by moonmonkey:

I dress to the left, where does your dock go?

My dock is on the right and pinned to the top. (The way it allways should have been

)

I don't let volumes mount on the desktop (they allways mount under the dock and i don't need them on the desktop)

ShotgunEd · Mar 27, 2003, 06:42 AM

I've got mine at the bottom and centered. I had it on the right at the top for ages, but i moved back to the bottom a while ago.

Gatorzx2 · Mar 27, 2003, 09:10 AM

Until about a month or two ago my dock was always at the bottome and couldn't bring myself to move it. I then forced myself to move it to the right and now I can't go back.

Appleman · Mar 27, 2003, 10:17 AM

Mine is at the bottom. A friend of mine has his at the right. I wanted to trash something with the mouse, and automatically went to the right down corner (old habits...). But of course that can be done with the keyboard shortcut, and one probably get used to the "other" location.

cube-dude · Mar 27, 2003, 10:28 AM

Should've included a "hidden" category in the poll.

My TiBook is bottom, centered and the Cube is right, hidden. No rhyme or reason, other than they just feel intuitive this way.

malemutekid · Mar 27, 2003, 12:06 PM

Originally posted by Zadian:
My dock is on the right and pinned to the top. (The way it allways should have been )

I don't let volumes mount on the desktop (they allways mount under the dock and i don't need them on the desktop)

How do you get your dock to go to the top?

Orion27 · Mar 27, 2003, 12:44 PM

The only place for the dock is on the left. Desktop
downloads appear on the right. Disk icons on the
right. I'm right handed so a sweeping motion to the left opens apps on the dock and trash is a breeze. 32 apps on a thin grey strip to the left is economy of space. To the left frees top and bottom for maximum page views up and down.

graphics84 · Mar 27, 2003, 12:58 PM

ok, it would only let me post once...

I have it on the Right on my Tibook and the bottom on my G4 tower but that's just because of dual monitors..

Zadian · Mar 27, 2003, 02:04 PM

Originally posted by malemutekid:
How do you get your dock to go to the top?

The dock itself is not on the top. It's on the right but not centered. It starts at the top right corner.
It's a setting that can be pasted into the Dock preferences file (com.apple.dock.plist)

<key>pinning</key>
<string>start</string>

malemutekid · Mar 27, 2003, 02:52 PM

Originally posted by Zadian:
The dock itself is not on the top. It's on the right but not centered. It starts at the top right corner.
It's a setting that can be pasted into the Dock preferences file (com.apple.dock.plist)

<key>pinning</key>
<string>start</string>

Thanks

moonmonkey · Mar 27, 2003, 05:16 PM

Originally posted by malemutekid:
Thanks

Or use Tinkertool!

moonmonkey · Mar 27, 2003, 05:17 PM

Originally posted by Orion27:
The only place for the dock is on the left. Desktop
downloads appear on the right. Disk icons on the
right. I'm right handed so a sweeping motion to the left opens apps on the dock and trash is a breeze. 32 apps on a thin grey strip to the left is economy of space. To the left frees top and bottom for maximum page views up and down.

I agree, to the left and pinned to the bottom.

macbuddha1 · Mar 27, 2003, 10:23 PM

Left, hidden and no HD on the desktop. Just keeping things tidy!

Mr. Blur · Mar 27, 2003, 10:32 PM

right, pinned to bottom on my powerbook. left, pinned to top on my powermac - i'd like it to be on the right side of my *left* monitor (i use 2...) but it won't let me do that.

shangy · Mar 27, 2003, 10:56 PM

On the right; and hidden.

moonmonkey · Mar 27, 2003, 11:09 PM

Originally posted by Gatorzx2:
Until about a month or two ago my dock was always at the bottome and couldn't bring myself to move it. I then forced myself to move it to the right and now I can't go back.

Dont you get files appearing underneath it?

tikki · Mar 27, 2003, 11:29 PM

On the bottom. In the center.

Steve would be so proud.

TheIceMan · Mar 27, 2003, 11:41 PM

Originally posted by cube-dude:
Should've included a "hidden" category in the poll.

My...Cube is right, hidden. No rhyme or reason, other than they just feel intuitive this way.

Yup, couldn't vote because there was no "hidden" category. Mine is right, bottom, hidden. I use Fruit Menu so the dock is worthless to me.

moonmonkey · Mar 28, 2003, 12:28 AM

Originally posted by TheIceMan:
Yup, couldn't vote because there was no "hidden" category. Mine is right, bottom, hidden. I use Fruit Menu so the dock is worthless to me.

You should vote on which edge the dock is on.

If I was to add a hidden option I would have to add pining and then there would be 64 different voting options.

Superchicken · Mar 28, 2003, 01:07 AM

I used tinker tool and I'm soo thankful to the person who mentioned it on here! I have it where I used to have my application switcher and control strip in OS 9

Makes it feel much more intuitive for me, menus left top, app switching bottom left, clock top right, nothing bottom right.

But yeah bottom pinned to the left, works great!
But you have to turn off dock magnification though... otherwise the finder icon goes off the screen... there should be something to prevent that in my thinking...

mrwalker · Mar 28, 2003, 08:12 AM

Mine's on the right. On widescreen aspect monitors it makes more sense and to me feels more 'roomy'- you still get the full height of the screen.

I find the action of dragging easier from left to right rather than right to left, else I'd have my dock on the left.

With the dock on the left, you need to set the desktop icons' text to the right, so that the icons themselves don't hide under the dock.

-mrwalker