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OldFolder

OldFolder

revives pre-Leopard Dock's hierarchical menu interface for folders

Version:  1.1.1

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Good potential, but a bit more work would be useful

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Contributed by: Richard G. Hallas Tuesday, November 13 2007 @ 04:41 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

This is exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for, as I really want to keep the hierarchical Dock folder behaviour in Leopard.

OldFolder is the first attempt I've seen to bring this behaviour back and is thus very much appreciated and most useful. However, there are few ways in which it could be better. Particularly (in descending order of importance):

1. As yet, it doesn't support aliases to folders. One of my Dock folders (which used to be extremely useful, and is now utterly useless as a stack) is a folder full of folder aliases, so that I can easily collect together ways of accessing different directories. OldFolder just shows these as top-level folder names, just as the equivalent stack does, and it fails to allow me to navigate the contents of the folders. So, support for aliases needs to be added.

2. There are no icons against the names, which makes it much less easy to see what's what.

3. It's a shame that the icon has to appear intermingled with applications rather than in the 'folder' side of the Dock, but I suppose that's unavoidable.

4. The default click behaviour is to open the window offering a Quit option or to choose a new folder. In the old Dock folders I could hold down the mouse button to get the hierarchical menu, and it would be nice if OldFolder could also do this with an unmodified click.
  

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•••   Re your Nº 4 - Andreas..

On my G5 I get the hierarchical menu either instantly by Control-click or by holding down on the Dock icon for a second with no keys depressed – exactly, I think, what you are asking for.
 

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Tuesday, November 13 2007 @ 06:06 AM PST


•••   Re your Nº 4 - Richard G. Hallas

Absolutely right. For some reason, it seems that it didn't work on the first occasion I tried it, but after a subsequent reload it did behave as I'd hoped it would. I can't explain the anomaly, but I'm pleased that it does work as expected.

The developer also appears now to have fixed the resolving of aliases, which is great. Unfortunately, for me, it just causes the application to hang (maybe because of the large size of the menus it's trying to build). Building menus also can take a long time, whereas the Dock didn't use to have a long pause before you could use it.

Anyway, it's definitely improving.

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Tuesday, November 13 2007 @ 02:53 PM PST