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Quay

Quay - 1.1.1

Add hierarchical menus with various capabilities for your Leopard Dock.

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Selected Version: 1.1.1
Release Date: 2008-12-02
License: Shareware
Downloads (version 1.1.1): 1,408
Downloads (all versions): 1,619
Price: $9.00

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Product Description:

Quay extends the Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Dock to show extended popup menus for most Dock items, including applications, stacks and URLs. Quay also allows you to make folder proxy icons with easily customized icons.

So why should you use Quay at all? Extra information, more flexibility. For one, the Dock's popups are limited to about 500 items; Quay's limit is in the tens of thousands. You can have a Quay popup on both sides of the Dock; Apple has them only on the document side. The Dock doesn't follow aliases/symbolic links in its menus; Quay does. It works for Smart Folders, also shows application versions and (for running applications) CPU and memory statistics. Still, if for some reason you want the Dock's normal display, just hold the Option key down before clicking.

Quay is a simple-to-use Cocoa application. You can run it just to configure a popup item in the Dock, but it works automatically with your existing stacks; the actual popup is handled by a background process that uses few system resources. The Dock icons can be customized for better recognition (and put on both sides of the Dock).

Quay does no magic. It doesn't hack the Dock in any way, and calls no private system interfaces.

There is no trial period, but only the first Quay item on each side of the Dock will work until you register. Application popups are a free bonus!

What's new in this version:

  • The Quay menus now activate correctly after a restart (they failed to do so on some systems).
  • Quay now works correctly if you have a Dashboard widget on your desktop.
  • Operating System Requirements:

    This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

    • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
    • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC

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    Quay CommentaryUn-Mac Like? Not - Version: 1.1.2, 9/17/2009 03:35PM PST

    WhiteDog
    There's no mystery about Quay - if you know how to follow an alias to the original file (Command-r), a feature of the Mac OS since at least OS 7.5 - you'll find the Quay app and its associated files in the user folder>Library>Applications Support>Quay.quay file. Right click on the file and select Show Package Contents. You can do the same to the oddly named files inside to see the default Quay icons for the Applications and Utilities folders and any custom folder icons you design in Quay. As to whether you need the functionality Quay provides, that's a matter of individual preference. Quay has become less essential as the Dock has improved though Quay, too, has improved along the way.
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    Quay Usage TipVersion 1.1.2 (297) now posted. - Version: 1.1.2, 9/2/2009 04:47PM PST

    Rainer Brockerhoff
    This new build fixes the timeout bug that was disabling the QuayMenu background process on Snow Leopard after a certain click pattern. Also, stacking screens vertically now works if menu bar and Dock are on different screens. All users should update.
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    Quay CommentaryUn-mac-like. Why the mystery? - Version: 1.1.1, 12/23/2008 07:23AM PST

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    grh-svo
    The App and the Help file, even the installer itself, appear only as aliases. Where the hell are the real files? Why be so secretive?

    And for sure, a ReadMe file would be helpful because the VT description is rather opaque (i.e. the author does not have a way with words). Yes, there is a Help.rtfd alias but, once I've put the folder where I want it, the alias can no longer find its master. So I have only a vague idea of what this thing does and that's not good enough for me. Now I want to uninstall it but guess what...

    Anything like this that tinkers with the system, even if it "calls no private system interfaces" (whatever that means) should come with an uninstaller. This thing does not, so I am not happy.
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