[Ti] Invisible Dock (for Massimo Marino)

[Victor Eijkhout]

>Unfortunately that is what I meant: the hide and show. It does not 
>happen frequently (at least for me) to be with the cursor on the 
>last pixels of my screen estate where the Dock is hiding.

How on earth do you manage that? Example: Eudora opens new windows at 
full screen height. If I want to resize I need to go to the bottom of 
the screen. So I just give the mouse a good push and it's there. It's 
way too much work too move slowly, sloooowwly, slooooooowwwwlllly to 
exactly the right pixel without overshooting.

>If you want it permanently (how *permanently* can be *more or less* 
>? ;-) ) invisible than you need an AppSwitcher to start applications 
>(so not to have the desktop cluttered with icons), something a la

LaunchBar or DragThing. Yep. I use those two. DragThing has its apps 
dock open, which i use to switch between open apps, and I use 
LaunchBar for opening new stuff. I could live without DragThing, but 
I've used it for years, so it's kinda what I'm used to. Additionally 
I have DefaultFolder to take me to favourite or recent places in the 
Open dialog. Between those, and sometimes just opening Finder windows 
and using Find as a last resort, I don't need the Dock. Ok, it's a 
pity of those cute dock apps, but that's the sacrifice I'll make for 
living with a whole lot less irritation.

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