Comments on: Customizing the Leopard Dock

By: demiphonic

demiphonic — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:31:07 +0000

does anyone have the original png indicator files? a doc program deleted them by mistake! where can I download them?

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tentricks.com » Blog Archive » 10 Ways to Get More Out of Leopard — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:26:19 +0000

[...] To change the indicators for active applications, Joseph Crawford has provided an easy to follow tutorial. [...]

By: Holla

Holla — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:27:59 +0000

The directory is almost correct. You’ll want to navigate to:

/System/Library/CoreServices/dock.app/Contents/Resources/

You can actually do it in the GUI, just click:
Shift+Apple+G, then copy and paste above directory.

Thanks for the images and input.

By: Joseph Crawford

Joseph Crawford — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:31:48 +0000

I think what I would suggest at this point though is for you to use Candybar 3 which I wrote about.

By: Joseph Crawford

Joseph Crawford — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:30:02 +0000

You must have something wrong.

codebowl:Resources jcrawford$ pwd
/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:12:08 +0000

Followed part 3.) open Terminal.app and issue the following command
cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Content/Resources/

got this error

No such file or directory

… from a Terminal newbie

By: Crispin Bates

Crispin Bates — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:07:03 +0000

Is there any way to change the appearance of the dock when it is on the left or right of the screen? As an author, I need to maximise the height of the screen for editing. The dock is never at the bottom. In Tiger the dock looked the same wherever it was. Under Leopard it now has an ugly dark grey background and a white border. How to change this?

By: Joseph Crawford

Joseph Crawford — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:03:20 +0000

The closest I have been able to come is to remove the glass look. You still see the reflections from the icons. I do not think there is a way to remove that as of yet. I just deleted all images in the Dock.app folder and it still showed the shelf.

By: Joseph Crawford

Joseph Crawford — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:47:50 +0000

I have not tried removing it but you could try using a completely transparent image rather than the image of the shelf.

By: OS2Guy

OS2Guy — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:42:32 +0000

I don’t hate the new dock, I hate the shelf it sits on. That shelf makes my 30″ Apple Cinema display seem smaller and the shelf needs to be removed. Under Tiger many of us had no background at all. What would be nice is to remove the shelf, making the dock transparent, leaving the icon shadows and the little glow lights. Those are cool.

Can you remove the shelf altogether, leave the icon shadows and the glow lights?