Comments on: Dear potential Dock icon candidate – How to decide what icons make it to your dock http://gigaom.com/apple/dear-potential-dock-icon-candidate/ Mon, 28 May 2012 13:02:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mr Gray http://gigaom.com/apple/dear-potential-dock-icon-candidate/#comment-327958 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:48:43 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3416#comment-327958 I can’t believe I’ve never thought of putting folder icons down there – having my download and other common folders there has made access that little bit quicker. Thanks for mentioning your 4th criteria.

]]> By: Todd Baur http://gigaom.com/apple/dear-potential-dock-icon-candidate/#comment-327957 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:25:16 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3416#comment-327957 Should Apple drop the stictness of having apps on the left and the rest of the stuff on the right then? I would love to just have a bar that I could configure however the efff I wanna.

]]> By: weekly roundup: 5.31-6.6 « mission:contend http://gigaom.com/apple/dear-potential-dock-icon-candidate/#comment-327946 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:40:52 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3416#comment-327946 [...] how to decide what icons make it to your dock [...]

]]> By: MacBlogger http://gigaom.com/apple/dear-potential-dock-icon-candidate/#comment-327949 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:22:07 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3416#comment-327949 I am highly-obsessive about my dock. If you create groups of applications (folders/stacks) and design your OWN icons, you’ll be good to go.

]]> By: reclusivemonkey http://gigaom.com/apple/dear-potential-dock-icon-candidate/#comment-327948 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:19:33 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3416#comment-327948 @MacNewb: Thanks for that, that’s much nicer =]

]]> By: mikelite http://gigaom.com/apple/dear-potential-dock-icon-candidate/#comment-327947 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:09:16 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3416#comment-327947 I’m with Tice. I only keep the apps that I use as droplets to force open documents with that app. Everything else is just a quick Cmd+Space away.

]]> By: Jim http://gigaom.com/apple/dear-potential-dock-icon-candidate/#comment-327950 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:45:16 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3416#comment-327950 I prefer to let “usefulness” be the deciding factor as to what goes in my dock. I could care less what the icon looks like.

]]> By: MacNewb http://gigaom.com/apple/dear-potential-dock-icon-candidate/#comment-327953 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:20:44 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3416#comment-327953 Alas, there is a pretty good icon replacement for handbrake; it’s a bit more relevant (yet rather obvious) than the developers original “Happy Hour” design. You can find it here:

http://samuraicoder.net/handbrake_replacement_icon

And I also forget, I’m an avid quicksilver’er as well.

]]> By: Galley http://gigaom.com/apple/dear-potential-dock-icon-candidate/#comment-327952 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:09:04 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3416#comment-327952 I use MLB.TV Mosaic on a daily basis, but I don’t keep it in the dock? Why? Because when the application is launched, another icon is spawned. Chalk it up to lousy programming.

]]> By: reclusivemonkey http://gigaom.com/apple/dear-potential-dock-icon-candidate/#comment-327951 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:59:56 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3416#comment-327951 @MacNewb: You’re so right about Handbrake… surely someone could donate a nice icon!

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