01.24.03
DragThing Vs The Dock
Okay, I know I ought to be able to get comfortable with the Dock. And now that it doesn’t push around my Desktop icons in 10.2, I’ve kept it ‘open’ and not hidden.
I’ve also decided that I can move certian icons to it, based on how I acutally use them.
Requirement 1: I don’t need to launch them with a keystroke. I use DragThing for organizing my launch keys and the Dock doesn’t do that.
Requirement 2: I don’t need to drag things to them. DragThing will let me drag *any* file into *any* application. The essence of Drag-and-Drop interfaces is the ability to drag data to more than one tool. If the default tool was the only thing I ever needed, that would be great. But I want my HTML files to open in BBEdit, and in any one of 4 different browsers. Drag and Drop is an absolute must. Graphics files are often in the same boat. As are PDFs, EPS’s, Zips, .SITs, etc.
That the Dock doesn’t allow me to work this way is really annoying. That’s Why I have DragThing. Yay DragThing.
So what’s in my Dock after all that?
The Finder, DragThing, Stickies, Keyboard Maestro, iChat, AddressBook, iCal, NewtSync, and ClassicStartup (you did know that it’s got an icon, right?).
Everything else is DragThing’s domain.