Re: Early History of Mac OS X Dock

On 2025-01-11 23:03:20 +0000, Your Name said:

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>

Yeah IIRC there were third-party versions of the Dock before Apple formally incorporated it into their system (much in the same way they did with WindowShade and other extensions). I never used them though and grudgingly accepted the Dock when I moved to OSX.
I never leave anything in the Dock other than apps that are running, to me it's ridiculous to see a Dock with 20 or 30 icons in it.