Quay 1.0

One of my great Dock tricks (and I use the term 'trick' loosely), no longer works in Leopard. The old 'put a folder in the Dock and get a hierarchical menu' trick has been obsoleted by Stacks. Stacks are pretty, I'll give Apple that, but they aren't as useful to people who have lots of Documents or Apps on their Macs. Good thing for Quay 1.0 has now been released and my hierarchical menus are back!

Not only are they back, but they're better than ever. Quay allows you to set the way the menu is sorted, the size of the icons on that menu, and the look of the Dock icon. Another thing worth noting is that 'Quay folders' appear on the right side of the Dock separator, as they should, and Quay itself doesn't have to be running in order for these 'Quay Menus' to work.

The developer notes that no undocumented APIs are used, and the Dock isn't hacked in anyway. Quay costs €7, and there is no free trial (if you want more than one Quay folder though, you have to pony up the cash).

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Source: http://www.brockerhoff.net/quay/

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One of my great Dock tricks (and I use the term 'trick' loosely), no longer works in Leopard. The old 'put a folder in the Dock and get a...

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rafalski

I have the beta, love it! This tiny app fixes the Leopard bug that stacks are.

November 29 2007 at 11:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

eric f

this is a great replacement for your downloads folder!

November 29 2007 at 10:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fritz Laurel

Has anyone tried replacing the Leopard dock with the Tiger dock? Just a thought.

November 29 2007 at 7:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jeremy

Or use "Old Folder", mainly because it's free and appears to do exactly the same thing!

http://www.hawkwood.com/oldfolder/

Sorry but the argument for paying $10 for this just cos it sits on the right side of the dock and has no "distracting "running" light" is lame. Have you ever been "distracted" by a little blue light on the dock????

November 29 2007 at 6:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

phil

andrew, i wouldn't call Stacks progress. It is somewhat anti-progressive, so progress is good, basically.

November 29 2007 at 4:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Andrew

I checked it out -- it does the job but it's a tad sluggish on my 1.66 GHz Mini. Specifically my mouse pointer can outrun the selected item. But otherwise it works great; if it were in the $5 range I'd consider registering.

Why do we want such a thing? Well, I have lots of sub-folders in my Applications folder (Utilities, Browers, etc) and with Stacks and Fans you can't easily navigate the sub-folders. You only get the top-level menu. Odd that Apple would pull useful features. Progress is not always a good thing!

November 28 2007 at 11:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

JimD

The money people are spending on these ticky-tack dock apps would be better spent just replacing the dock completely with DragThing.

November 28 2007 at 9:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

greg hickman

yeah i don't think I'd be willing to pay for this either. Stacks does ok for me. I don't even us it that much either. how does using some like this truly affect your workflow?

I'd love to know!
Thanks,
Greg @ www.toonice4tv.com

November 28 2007 at 9:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jon Niola

If you could drag & drop items onto the quay folder this would be amazing, but if Mat found still holds true this app is lacking a must-have feature in my opinion.

November 28 2007 at 8:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

I've been using Proteron's MaxMenus since switching from OS 9 to X. It's fast and very customizable, and they are spring loaded (you can drag items to the menus). Never did use folders in the dock as a result. I'll likely just wait until MaxMenus is updated for Leopard.

http://www.proteron.com/

November 28 2007 at 7:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply