OT: Favorable press on the Mac OS X Dock (was Re: [Mac OS X TeX] alpha X piccies)

[Jon Guyer]

At 11:36 AM -0500 1/29/02, William Adams wrote:

>Uh, Eisenhower was in office from 1953--61....

As if I didn't know already, thanks for calibrating what sort of 
person I'm dealing with.

>How 'bout having read of anyone liking the Dock?

Like I said, we run in very different circles. If Cat-in-the-Dock 
sells it for you, more power to you.

I don't see anything touted in those articles as benefits of the Dock 
weren't already available to the real Mac OS in less obtrusive ways.

>``...Though a bit distracting and obtrusive,...

This is an endorsement?!?



I'm not arguing that you shouldn't be able to be pummelled upside the 
head with the Doc /if you want to be/. I just don't like having 
perfectly useful, and IMNSHO better designed, tools taken away from 
me and replaced with something that I and a lot of others decidedly 
DO NOT LIKE.


All that said, despite my very low esteem for the Dock, I'm willing 
to waste a significant amount of development time (that would be 
better spent on other aspects of Alpha) to accommodate the stupid 
thing (although if accommodating the Dock didn't involve pretty much 
the same steps needed to bring Alpha's crufty code into Display 
Manager compliance, you can bet I'd find better things to do).

-- 

   Jonathan E. Guyer
   <http://www.his.com/jguyer/>

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