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Post #39 by Weyland-Yutani
Source ForumMacNN
CategorySoftware
Post DateWed, 11 May 2005 - 06:32
Original URLhttps://web.archive.org/web/20050621075046/https://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=255636
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
*The option to make hidden applications transparent should be GUI accessible. I am going to have to look that one up again.

*There should be some customizability of item grouping. But it's useless to talk about this because Apple seems categorically opposed to any real improvements. It's difficult to believe that OS X has gone through four major revisions with essentially a static Dock.

Item grouping would be

Good idea Big Mac!!

As for Apple, they have changed the Dock a little bit. Perhaps a little less than the Finder. These are certainly aspects of the OS that seem to be in "maintainance mode" at Apple - I just can't imagine Apple has decided to never look at two of the most persistant elements in the Mac OS X experience, the Dock and the Finder.

I'd expect a major improvement of both in 10.5