Re: Early History of Mac OS X Dock

Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2025-01-11 12:30:59 +0000, Liz Tuddenham said:
 

D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:
 

article by James Thomson January 4, 2025
https://tla.systems/blog/2025/01/04/i-live-my-life-a-quarter-century-at
-a- time/
 
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So, we are coming up on a little anniversary for me this weekend. On
the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user
interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo.
 
Towards the end of the presentation, he showed off the Dock. You all
know the Dock, it's been at the bottom of your Mac screen for what
feels like forever (if you keep it in the correct location, anyway).

 
 
I'm sorry to add a note of dissent, but the Dock was one of the main
things which made me decide not to install OSX.  The Launcher and
Windowshade were far more useful and intuitive - things stayed where you
put them so your fingers always knew where to find them.  That is why I
am still using a Beige G3 with OS 8.6 as my main office machine.

 
You can get Dock apps for Classic versions of MacOS. "A-Dock" is
perhaps the best of them.
<http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/a-dock-301>

That's the last thing I should want to do, why ruin a good operating
system?  I want to completely remove the Dock from OSX and use a
combination of Launcher and Windowshade.

'Minimising' things into the Dock is like having a dilligent but stupid
secretary who removes every sheet of paper from your desk except the one
you are reading and files it away in an ever-changing filing system that
you have to search by pictures to get it back.   With Windowshade you
just rolled up the window so you could see what was underneath it - then
you knew exactly what it was and where to find it when you wanted it
again.

 
I hate the Dock with a vengeance, it has spoilt the Mac platform for me.

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