Leopard Dock Folder Previews

So Leopard definitely has some cool new eye candy. The new dock is pretty and that Finder coverflow thing is pretty neat, though I rarely use it. I also like the new Fan and Grid functionality for the folders in your Dock.

However, I’d really enjoy not having those Dock folder previews. My Applications folder now looks like the Address book with the Automater bot peering over it. My Downloads folder currently looks like a Stuffit archive and my home folder looks like…well, you get the idea. I even spent entirely too much time picking out cute icons for those folders in my Tiger days so I’d easily be able to pick them out. Here’s eagerly waiting for a way to disable that feature.

Update – 4/18/2008

I don’t know in what version this feature has been made configurable but now you can configure a folder on your dock to “Display as Folder” rather than a “stack”. Also, it looks like they’ve added the ability to open the folder as a “list” which is the old fly-out menu version, the only option available in pre-Leopard OS X. I think these features can be attributed directly to the influence of this blog in the Mac community…maybe not.

~ by Anthony on November 14, 2007.