Apple adjusts side-positioned Dock in Leopard

In Tiger, I like my Dock at...TOP LEFT !! (not side, not bottom)

I often fling my mouse to the top of the screen to access menu items. Then I have to fling my mouse to the bottom (or left or right) to access Dock items.

Placing both in the same place just works more intuitively.

Looks like defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES works, if that screen shot is anything to go by. Here's hoping it's for real. Makes me wonder if anything can be done about the translucent menubar.

I agree! Bring the 2D dock look to the bottom, no 3D dock!

I'm a "dock hider." I still liked how the new dock looked...

You can change the 3D dock to a 2D bottom-placed!
Some user found it out, using one single command:

http://lime.quickshareit.com/share/picture1d2a37.png

So 2D lovers rejoice!

The side dock is bugged. It doesn't like things under it. It will suck for you :"Sorey" )

I keep the dock on the bottom left and transparent. With the explosion of pallets and toolbars in the apps I use most - CS3 - screen real estate on the sides gets used up quickly.

I use it on the side - it's a nice tweak from Apple, but to be honest it wouldn't have been a dealbreaker in terms of whether I was going to buy it or not.

Given the new features coming with Leopard, I find it a bit weird that someone might refuse to buy it on the basis of a funny looking dock, but each to their own I guess.

@nick: "Pirate community.... I'm very very disappointed with you all. You should be ashamed of yourselves!"

Apple hasn't seeded the GM build to developers, so the pirates (yarr!) who'd normally be spreading this far and wide haven't gotten their hands on it yet. That makes me curious about the provenance of that screenshot.

I assume they've held on to it for two reasons: one, to prevent that scenario from taking place and two, I guess because there's still something we haven't yet seen.

My thought is we haven't yet seen Leopard's true face. The translucent menubar and the dock shelf were red herrings designed to keep people (read: us Mac nerds) occupied so they could work on the new UI undisturbed.

THANK GAWD. Now if we could just get the carbon menu bars back id be happy. Semi transparent is about retarded. Why would i want to see a desktop picture... Its hardly my reason for computing. In fact i dont use a desktop picutre.. i use a solid carbon grey...

@8:

Im a total side docker. The right side, because im right handed. I have two modes i work in basically... Mouse when im doing graphic design, and keyboard when im doing web development or other type heavy activities. I keep my dock on the die because i use it to switch apps when im in "mouse mode". Since im right handed its a natural expectation to have my "zero point" for screen navigation be at the right. right next to all my (expndeded!) adobe palettes. Furthermore i never hide the dock so it dosent get unruly. its jsut there. with a 20" ACD at the maximum allowable display size screen real estate isnt really an issue. In fact as a gneral rule i opt for everything within click visibikity i need for a given task this usually results in a screen layout that looks liek on integrated application but is in reality 3-5. Thats why im really excited about spaces... I can group these "super apps" to a space and switch between groups easily.