Stacks improvement

GraemeUK

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Edit: Link down (for now) try this http://www.duggmirror.com/apple/Fixing_OS_X_Leopard_s_Stacks_with_overlaying_icons/

Much better than standard. Enjoy. :)

Before & after:

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It is a shame that Apple have made quite a few interface goofs in Leopard. They took a giant stride forward with their Touch interface but seem to have taken a step backward with the operating system.

Sounds like all the engineers they "borrowed" for the iPhone were all UI guys.
 
Looks good if I knew how to get it working :p :(

edit: any got idea where to put the icons can't seem to find anything?
 
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theheyes said:
It is a shame that Apple have made quite a few interface goofs in Leopard.
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I agree - a lot of the changes are pointless/inconsistent.

Take the rounded corners. They finally took those off of the menu bar, yet they've slapped them on to either 2 or 4 of the corners of every context menu.
 
But it's not even consistent. They can actually be on either 2, 3 or 4 corners of the context menu depending on the menu. Bit of a mess to look at.
 
I didnt actually mind the rounded corners on the menu bar. I'm still running Tiger at the moment (waiting for 10.5.1). Hopefully Apple will roll out consistency fixes as they go, although they never seemed to make any with Tiger.

Its not a major issue, but interface is the first hurdle of usability and for a company that prides itself on ease-of-use they are overlooking some BASIC concepts of usability engineering.
 
Erm, forgive my ignorance, I've downloaded the archive, unzipped it, but now I'm left with a bunch of folders, not files, with the appropriate icons :o

Edit: I'm definitely missing something, I've just downloaded some more icons and they're all folders too, starting to feel a liiiittle stupid now :p
 
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slylittlefox said:
Erm, forgive my ignorance, I've downloaded the archive, unzipped it, but now I'm left with a bunch of folders, not files, with the appropriate icons :o

Edit: I'm definitely missing something, I've just downloaded some more icons and they're all folders too, starting to feel a liiiittle stupid now :p
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You need to put the icons into the stacks folder(s). We could name the icon 0.app and sort by name to keep them up top, but this isn’t really practical for the Downloads stack, so we’re going to change the access modified date using the unix command touch. So open up Terminal and follow this example, replacing the location and name of the icon where neccessary.

cd ~/Downloads
touch -mt 202001010101.01 " Downloads "

This will change the date modified of the icon to 1st January, 2020. Obviously you’ll need to change ” Downloads ” to whatever the folder/icon is named. The example is with the downloads stack but you can do it for any of them. Now just make sure your stack is sorting by date modified (ctrl-click/right-click the stack and Sort by:). Repeat for other stacks and enjoy.
 
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You need to put the icons into the stacks folder(s). We could name the icon 0.app and sort by name to keep them up top, but this isn’t really practical for the Downloads stack, so we’re going to change the access modified date using the unix command touch. So open up Terminal and follow this example, replacing the location and name of the icon where neccessary.

cd ~/Downloads
touch -mt 202001010101.01 " Downloads "

This will change the date modified of the icon to 1st January, 2020. Obviously you’ll need to change ” Downloads ” to whatever the folder/icon is named. The example is with the downloads stack but you can do it for any of them. Now just make sure your stack is sorting by date modified (ctrl-click/right-click the stack and Sort by:). Repeat for other stacks and enjoy.
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Many thanks for the help, but I'm afraid its more stupid than that: my icons are folders, not icons or files. So if I put them in the directory of my choosing, they are indeed at the front, but they're just shown as the normal directory icon...

I guess I'm being retarded :o
 
That is actually rather snazzy, as all my stacks just show up as folders till I hover over them - will look into this later tonight.

Rich
 
This improvement is okay, at least it kinda looks like it's "organising" all my downloaded .dmg instead of just showing an ugly dmg file on my dock...
 
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