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How about a completely transparent dock? No background, no shelf...that's what I want!

Excellent! I love tweaking my Mac.
Can't wait 'til Unsanity updates their stuff for Leopard.

Yeah, Jooop, you're right!
We need Transparent Dock, like the one for Panther & Tiger! That was my fave Tiger Dock tweak.

http://www.freerangemac.com/

I would like the blue glowing thingies to throb. Now that would be cool randomly of each other. Either that would be annoying to some or cool to others.

Why doesn't someone make and offer a replacement dock that simply looks like the current, Tiger, dock? After seven years, I'm pretty used to how it looks, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

I looked through that whole page, past glowing pink docks and guitar-amp-surfaced docks, without finding this.

C'mon, dock designers!

"We must admit that the first thing we did to Leopard's dock (on day one) was change the indicators for running apps into solid black triangles. You know, so you can see them. It's helpful."

How do you make this happen?

Absolutely awesome. If I could only choose one already.

Does anyone know how to change the Aurora image that pops up at the login screen. In Tiger it was simply a matter of swapping Aqua Blue.png (i think that's what it was) for another (just name it Aqua Blue and replace) But in Leopard I've found the Aurora.png (in Desktop Images folder) and swapped it but it still starts up with that awful Aurora pic. How do I change it? what am I missing?

To Jay...
I havn't tried, but assume you'd have to find the actual dock app, and right click, show package contents. Then in the resources folder should be a little blue triangle png/ico. You'd change this with a graphic editor and save (keep the original in case things go screwy)

Any luck that these are compatible with tiger?

@Confused
its default desktop.jpg in /System/Library/Coreservices i believe

I changed mine to the iPhone Dock. Looks stunning. I'm going to try the Blue LED Indicators to replace those washed out blue dots. Apple really missed the boat on the Dock design.

When is the leopard update coming? I am itching to run it again. Now back to tiger due to incompatibilities and issues.

@ Huck

Here ya go... http://tinyurl.com/2fjeng

I've installed the AppleScript to revert my Dock to the "Old Look".

Umm mUhhh..

Where'd it go?

I get an error:

"Safari can’t open the page “http://www.leoparddocks.com/” because it can’t find the server “www.leoparddocks.com”."

Hmmmmmm....
Interesting....

I would like to personalize my Mac's appearance but I've learned that 3rd party hacks (and that's what they are) always leads to, at the very least, instability.


I wish Mac let you do natively (god knows I would have changed the Safari skin two years ago).

It's great to see third-party apps like this coming to the Mac OS. I would like to see Apple increase the size of the little blue dots. I think that would address most people's bitches.

(and no, I don't mean your wife or girlfriend)

Transparent dock how to here Transparent dock

@Toby,
Except for Witch (an app/window switcher with more features and functionality vs. command-tab - and its free!) for me. Never made anything unstable.

And, I've got nothing to do with the product except that I like it.

Look. Substituting one PNG for another is not going to make anything unstable. There's caution and then there's paranoia, and fearing PNG substitution falls squarely in the camp of paranoia.