Where's your dock ?
 

After months of having the dock at the bottom of the screen I moved it to the left so I could have longer OmniWeb windows. It's been there for weeks, took a while to get used to it there.

Re: Where's your dock ?
 

Way to use that poll, robh! :D

I've done my duty and voted!

Mine is on the right, pinned to the bottom with Tinkertool, and about 33% it's full size.

Mine is on the right. I keep it hidden. Actually, I only use it for minimized windows. I use Drag Thing for launching apps and keeping track of them.

My Dock?
 

I keep my Dock at the bottom, but pinned to the right with the help of the fantabulous Tinkertool. Every other place just doesn't feel right to me.

On the bottom, pinned to the right. Minimum size with about 33% magnification.

On the right, pinned to the right (top). I noticed that I had to expand it to cover pretty much the whole side, or files placed on my desktop would sometimes be placed in the bottom right corner.

Apple's default center bottom. Ahhh... symmetry and order.

~Dennis

Bottom and Right
 

On my admin account, it's hidden on the right, and on my "main" account, non-hidden at the botton and quite small.

In theory, you shouldn't put anything on the desktop, so right is maybe the best, or at least the "cleanest" choice...

- Benad

Cool. Polling. What a great idea!

I keep my dock on the bottom, no pinning, and hidden.

I keep DragThing anchored to the left and piDock on the right. That way I have access from all sides of my screen.

I keep it at the bottom, pinned to the right. Hurray for TinkerTool!

Sometimes I use DragThing, with the process dock on the left "pinned" to the top, and a launch dock on the left on the bottom side. The only reason I don't always use it is that when I have apps launch at login they always crash immediately :eek:. Does anybody recognize this? What should I do about it?

aiBoek

(Why is this forum so restricted on smileys? I had planned to us three of 'em, but not even two are accepted!)

I've played around with all of the various options - this was with tinkertool, under os x 10.0.* - but never really found anything better than bottom/center. it strikes me that apple put it there for a reason.

Mines on the right pinned to the bottom. Perhaps the poll should have more selections. I wonder how many people have it pinned to the top on the right..or left..etc.

Y

Bottom and centered, as God intended.

Top Right
 

I put mine on the right, pinned at the top. My brother the unix geek looked at it, and said "ooh, that's rather NextStep-ish, isn't it?" I dunno, I never used NextStep.
I work at 1280x1024 and it helps to use the right side. Most programs don't need windows that open all the way to the right, so the dock gets in the way less often. I pin it to the top because it's more important to have the Finder icon pinned than the Trash icon, you use the Finder a lot more than the Trash.

Left side, pinned to the bottom with Tinkertool, kept hidden.

No magnification, scaled to a little bigger than icons found back on OS9. The trash is always half-hidden by the CPU monitor floating window when I bring the dock up...

Got mine on the left, hidden and magnifying... makes most sense to keep it there, as I'm running on an 800*600 iBook, and real-estate is pretty expensive ;)

Just a question, to those who have "pinned" the dock to a corner - do you have magnification switched on? Just I've seen a lot of complaining (not here!) about the dock being "centred". However, if magnification is on, I think it really has to be centred from an ergonomic point of view:

If you move the pointer over an icon near the middle of a centred dock, you'll see that it gets bigger and stays in the same place, while the other icons skooch out of the way. You'll notice that the "hotspot" for each icon remains the same, the rest of the dock "moves out of the way" - to click the wastebasket, the mouse is always in the same place on the screen. If you "pin" one side of the dock, this functionality must be lost?

I haven't tried it, but what happens if the dock is pinned to the bottom left, and you run the mouse in from the right to select the wastebasket? Does it not slide away to the right, out from under the mouse?

On the left, pinned to the top, and hidden. The trash is always exposed (when my cursor is hovering around it), and it kinda reminds me of the old Apple Menu, but without all that annoying clicking 'n' such.

Minimum size, right pinned on the bottom..

Roughly 15% magnification.

I like it small and tidy

:)

Mine is on the bottom, hidden. I also use DragThing, and probably should just go ahead and disable the Dock entirely. I've tried just about all the launcher type apps, and have yet to find anything come close to DragThing, I've used it for about 4 yrs. now.

On the left for 2 reasons,

1) my screen is wider than tall (19inch) and it allows me more vertical real estate.

2) a right mouse click* on a folder placed in the left side dock opens it to the right very much like the old(sorry) mac os menu we used to know.

* you can do the same with control click on a one button mouse or just hold the mouse down briefly until the menu expands.