Ask Mac Users: What Do You Keep In Your Dock?

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by si2 • 17 years ago

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I had a breakthrough over the weekend when I realized that most of the apps I have been keeping in my Dock are useless, or that I open them up using spotlight more often than not. I am just curious to know, what do you find essential for the dock?

spooneybarger• 17 years ago

nothing. just running application. i use quicksilver to open everything. if i could make the dock go away and get the trash on the desktop and not lose expose, i would.

weaksauce2• 17 years ago

Most of the time I open up things with quicksilver. The few that I don't are firefox, xcode, cyberduck, and terminal.

si2• 17 years ago

Why do you use Quicksilver over Spotlight?

weaksauce2• 17 years ago

Quicksilver allows you want to do something other than find and open a file. Though if that is all you want to do quicksilver opens as a default action.

Coming from a linux background I like to automate/do things faster whenever I can so quicksilver is just one way to do that.

HalcyonMuse2• 17 years ago

Quicksilver responds much faster than Spotlight does, even when Spotlight has "indexed" the disk. I only use Quicksilver for launching applications (i.e. I don't do anything even slightly advanced with it) but it's still satisfying because Quicksilver will find the app as I type it, whereas Spotlight will think for a few seconds.

whalesalad• 17 years ago

I also rarely use my dock, and use Launchbar to get apps runnin.

Here's a typical day for my dock: http://www.grabup.com/uploads/c712431bcfb2b9658fe44b5062ff60...

br0ke• 17 years ago

activity monitor, X11 and firefox. The first thing I do when I get a new mac (or account on someone elses machine) is move the dock to the right side and rip everything off of it.

HalcyonMuse2• 17 years ago

Quicksilver, iCal, Thunderbird, Adium, iTunes and OmniFocus.

Ask Mac Users: What Do You Keep In Your Dock?

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