Do you have your Dock on the left or right? or bottom?

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Wanted to get peoples opinions on this.
I have my dock on the right usually, just felt more natural to me.
But I have recently switched it to the left to try and get used to it (because dual monitor with MBP causes the dock to go over to the second monitor if i have it on the right hand side)

whats your pros/cons for having the dock where you have it?
 
The default of the bottom is dumb because most applications are more constrained for vertical resolution these days, especially on widescreen displays.

So, right with auto-hide. I don't use it to launch apps so it's basically a listing of active applications.
 
To me it seems the widescreen displays are all the more reason to have the dock on the bottom where it belongs.

Isn't it a big part of the design 'philosophy' to have multiple windows open - drag and dropping files, multitasking... If you need the whole screen for something like photoshop or whatever then hiding the dock on the side or the bottom makes no difference.

Maybe this is different on lower resolution macbooks, but to me a dock anywhere but the bottom is so wrong.
 
Bottom as per defaults but it makes no difference, I open everything with spotlight so I hardly ever use it, just auto hide and it may as well not exist.
 
As BRS says, I use Quicksilver to open apps so the dock is clear except for those that are open. However, it goes on the left to maximise the workspace on the widescreen monitor.

Panzer
 
Do those that use the dock to only show open apps find that occasionally they will linger as 'shortcuts' after they are closed?

likwid said:
To me it seems the widescreen displays are all the more reason to have the dock on the bottom where it belongs.

Isn't it a big part of the design 'philosophy' to have multiple windows open - drag and dropping files, multitasking... If you need the whole screen for something like photoshop or whatever then hiding the dock on the side or the bottom makes no difference.

Maybe this is different on lower resolution macbooks, but to me a dock anywhere but the bottom is so wrong.
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Yeah, if it's on auto-hide then it doesn't matter. Personally I appreicate having maximum vertical space most on both high and low resolution displays, with a smaller app flanking a main one to make use of widescreen.

I do think the Dock is crap and inefficient on the whole so I'm not invested enough to worry about wrongness :p

I like using this with Linux (along with a keyboard launcher) for fast and efficient use of screen space.
 
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I've only found them lingering as shortcuts if I've used the mouse to switch to that program and I've accidentally pulled it off and put it back on the dock. That's where tabbing through apps comes in. :p

Panzer
 
wush said:
I do think the Dock is crap and inefficient on the whole so I'm not invested enough to worry about wrongness :p
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Weird, i've always seen the dock as one of the best things about OS X. Coming from Windows and having used Linux as well I find it's the most efficient open-app-display-thingy-come-shortcut-displayer there is. It makes multitasking the most fluid affair out of any OS - the fact that closing a window just closes the window and not the app is truely the way i work.

Each to his own I guess :p
 
I like the window vs. app distinction as well, but you can still appreciate that while completely ignoring the Dock.

What's fluid about spending time fishing around a large row of icons with the mouse? Keyboard launchers (Launchbar, Quicksilver, Spotlight, ..) are more elegant for instant access to any application, as is using cmd-tab or similar for switching between them if you already have your hands on the keyboard.

As a listing of all open applications it's nice, but I don't need that in my face at all times!
 
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bottom and 2d same as feek I prefer the length of the screen as opposed to width.

If im using pages then I tend to full screen it anyway.
 
At the bottom, with reduced size.

I just keep my most-used applications on it and the rest is launched by Spotlight :)
 
Got the 13" Macbook, so I swapped it over to the right - as people have said, you need as much space vertically as you can get. It's made life so much easier.
 
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