[X4U] Stacks of Apps?

[Doug McNutt]

At 11:49 +1100 11/25/07, Christopher Collins wrote:
>Loving Leopard including the stacks and spaces features.
>
>Now to the question. I want to be able to create stacks of 
>applications on the left hand side of the dock. I'm thinking of things 
>like a Browsers stack, an iWork stack, an iLife stack, a Utilities 
>stack, etc
>
>eg: I want Pages, Keynote and Numbers to be in a stack called iWork. 
>When I click on iWork, the stack opens and lets me click on any of the 
>applications (Keynote, Pages or Numbers) inside that stack.
>
>I know I can create them on the right hand side of the stack using 
>AutoStacks, but that to me, just duplicates the icons on the left.
>
>I've done some searching, but have been unable to find any way to make 
>an application stack for the left hand side of the dock.
>
>I did think of creating stacks on the right, and then deleting the 
>program icons from the left, but that isn't really an elegant solution
>
>Any ideas anyone?

On this machine I would create a folder 'System Folder:Apple Menu Items:iWork' and I would put aliases to Keynote, Pages, and Numbers into the new folder.

A pull down on the Apple Menu immediately provides a menu that does just what you want. But this is an 8500 running OS 9.1.  In OS neXt you might consider just making a directory on the desktop and putting aliases to the apps there. You could position it just left of the dock.

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