A-Dock X - 1.5.4

This is a great little app, offering far more customization and flexibility than Apple's dock. Unless you're absolutely dedicated to stacks, this is a better way to go.

The first shock many Leopard (10.5) installers got was seeing that the Dock's hierarchical view was gone. The second was that it removed custom icons in folders placed in the Dock.

Well, this A-Dock brings both back. Easy functionality, cheap, and does just what it needs to. Oh, and it allows you to place a trashcan on the lower right corner of your screen, just like the OS9 days.

Highly recommended. Runs perfectly on 10.5.1.

One note: the developer's website puts a lot of focus on A-Dock's ability to have unique backgrounds. Well, you can completely turn those off so that there's no background and no border, which is how I prefer.

It launches ok and quits ok in auto hide mode but you only see the icons once. When it hides and then reappears at mouse over all you see is a white rectangular strip. If you leave it to not auto hide the icons show fine but when you quit an application you've launched A-Dock disappears and has to be quit from Apples Activity Monitor. Sorry but it's back to the drawing board I think.

If you have it set for auto hide when it reappears during a mouse over all you get is a white bar. If you leave it up all items show but when you click on something a small white square pops up at the bottom of the bar and does not disappear. Hope this is fixed soon if possible. If not it was a good little application while it lasted.

I cannot speak highly enough of Jerome's work with A-Dock. I paid for it back in the OS 9 days, and I gladly paid for it again when the OS X version arrived. Fantastic work from an incredibly responsive developer. Bravo!