Pretty up those stacks!
by leon on November 14, 2007
Here is a REALLY simple way to tidy up your stacks in Leopard. The basis for the idea was found over at XD’s blog. By default the stack will show the icon of the newest entry to the containing folder. The basic idea is to use a nice icon to always show in the stack, rather than the cluttered ‘mess‘ you see at present. We could simply add an icon and rename the icon to ‘aa’ and select sort by name for the stack. This isn’t exactly perfect as the whole idea of stacks is to show the most recent items of a folder for quick retreival. The original idea was to edit the files attributes via the terminal and change the modified date to one in the future. I found a tool that can basically do this and is a lot easier. Its called FileXaminer and is shareware (you get a 14day trial, which is more than enough time to change all of the dates of the icons).
Tip, select sort by date by right clicking on the icon in the dock rather than inside the folder.
To download the icons, click here. Ive also included a set of Adobe CS3 style icons!!
Thanks to XD for this!!
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[...] Just a quick update to my previous entry on how to make the stacks look pretty. [...]
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