� The option to require a double-click on an icon in the Dock to open it. I find it all to common that my finger slips a bit on the trackpad and *wham* I'm opening Photoshop now!! [insert hard-drive crunching and me trying to forcequit PS]
i agree. which is why i've decided to leave photoshop and other processor intensive applications off the dock and just use quicksilver.

� The option to make it go away completely - essentially turn it off. This can be achieved with a hack but I don't want to get rid of the Dock. Simply there are times when I do not want to see it and do not want it to pop up. There are times when I simply do not need it at all.
it would be nice to have an option to do everything, yes. i probably don't need this though.

� Being able to close minimized windows in the Dock without having to maximize them then close them. Just a contextual menu [i.e. right-click] on a minimized window and choose "close". Would be really nice.
yeah, when i switched from windows, i could right click on an app on the ?start bar? and close it from there, so when I came here, it was kind of sad.

� I'd like to see more graphical feedback options in the Dock. For instance the neat hack where hidden apps become transparent in the Dock. I think that would be a nice [official] option! The minimized windows of an hidden app disappear from the Dock but the app icon shows no feedback that the app is hidden.
of course, again, more options are nice but i don't need them, especially graphical ones

� The trash should not be hardwired to the Dock. I don't see why this should be. Completely empty the Dock and all you have left is the Finder and the trash. The Finder can be approached without the Dock (alt-Tab for instance) but the trash can *only* be approached through the Dock. I don't agree with that - is that then really what the Dock is for?
another one i don't really mind. sometimes i notice it, and sometimes i don't.