Hierarchical menus in the Leopard dock: 3 ways

I really like the way stacks works. Spaces is also excellent.

I don't mind eye candy especially if it doesn't hurt system performance. Leopard is MUCH faster than tiger on my 24" iMac 2.16. If it running slower on your system I would wipe your system completely and reinstall.

Another fix that is rock solid in Leopard:
A-Dock
http://jerome.foucher.free.fr/ADock/ADock.html

I like Leopard a lot, but the remove of the hierarchical views and custom folder icons was a strange move. I use them every few minutes. But no worries, A-Dock brought them back, plus some more nice features.

Unlike some of my fellow posters here, I am mostly positive on Leopard. The increased speed of Spotlight, Preview's new features (especially the ability to merge and rearrange PDF pages), and QuickLook alone are almost worth the price of admission. And on my humble 2GHz Dual Core Mac Mini with 2GB of RAM the GUI seems to have a bit more of "teh snappy" than Tiger did.

That is not to say that Leopard does not have its share of niggles, and I've been on a search for decent utility programs to workaround its annoyances.

I tried HierarchicalDock for awhile but didn't like how it would seemingly cause (at least on my system) the entire screen to change brightness every time I clicked on any of its Dock icons. I'm now using Quay and cannot report any problems.

As for some of the other annoyances, here are some of my current solutions:

Get rid of the translucent menu bar: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071115135215262

Direct access to System Preference Panes:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20357&vid=134795
(note that PrefsMenu hasn't been updated since OS X 10.3, but it surprisingly works better in Leopard than it did in Tiger)

QuickLook Folder and Zip plugins:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/11/27/quick-look-folder-and-zip-plugins/

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! My dock is finally USABLE again!

I can't STAND stacks. Stupidest "innovation" ever. "Gee, let's take functionality away! That'll be great! iMovie was such a great success when we castrated it, so let's do the same to the Dock!"

Note the trend? Apple seems pretty keen on dumbing things down.

I'm pretty down on Leopard. I've already taken my PowerBook back to Tiger because Apple doesn't see fit to allow it to access wireless networks under 10.5, and I've been advising my customers to wait until the 10.5.5 release to go with it. If it wasn't such a hassle, I'd remove it from my G5 as well.

There's no reason there can't be both.

and there's a fourth way :
http://stuntblog.com/

Well, it only took Apple 2 or 3 years to quit making the puck mouse. There's hope. :-)

All I want for Christmas is a Heirarchial version of Stacks...

I have another fix: go back to Tiger.

I tried Leopard for a week and saw NO benefit. The senseless eye candy is annoying, the new Finder is nice but I can live without it, and Time Machine... well, I have backup software that works just fine.

Leopard looks ugly and ran slower than Tiger on my 2.16ghz iMac. It's a real disappointment...

I like hierarchical menus in the Dock, but only for launching apps. I still use the ancient utility Snard 1.5, the last freeware version before they went shareware, and the last version that worked as a Dock item. The current version 2.5.3 has gone a different direction but some users might like it.

http://www.gideonsoftworks.com/snard.html