I modifier-clicked my fingers off with no luck. Before I get into what does happen when you click on a docked folder, let me further point out that (surprise!) there is apparently no way to get the old behavior back. And we're not done yet.Ĭlicking a non-empty docked folder that contains other items no longer opens the folder in the Finder. And do I need to tell you that there's no way to disable this behavior? Sigh. And those few items may be misleading (e.g., the home folder appearing to be the Desktop folder) or completely generic (e.g., the Pictures and Movies folders showing up as plain folder icons.) Seriously, Apple, this is a bad idea. Only the top one, two, maybe three items have any visual impact. There's just not enough room in a single Dock tile for a stack of icons to convey any meaningful information. The problem is that this is fundamentally a bad idea. My Documents, Pictures, and Movies folders all contain mostly other folders as the first few items, alphabetically.Ĭhanging the sorting doesn't help much. It's basically Address Book, the head of the Automator robot icon, then a bit of folder peeking out the sides. So, out of the box, your home folder, when docked, appears to be the Desktop folder. The icon on the top is the Desktop folder icon. There's actually one document peeking out in the middle of the stack as a sliver of white. In the Leopard Dock, my home folder appears as a bunch of stacked folder icons because that's mostly what it contains: other folders.

And remember that the icons in the Leopard Dock will change their appearance as the contents of those folders change over time. When it comes to ease of identification, the Tiger version wins, hands down.

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