well the most - criticized aspect of Leopard ’s new Stacks feature is the fact that it does by with a pop lineament of Tiger ’s wharfage : the capability to place a folder in the Dock and then enter the contents of that folder , and its subfolders , via a hierarchical pop - up menu . Although I ’ve covered a few boisterous substitutes , we ’re now seeing third - political party programme that attempt to specifically replicate this Tiger lineament in Leopard .
One of the best efforts yet is Rainer Brockerhoff’sQuay(€7 ) . Currently in genus Beta , Quay nigh retroflex Tiger ’s booklet - in - pier functionality , but also adds a few often - requested option .
To get a Tiger - similar pamphlet in the Dock , you plunge Quay and then follow the onscreen didactics :
The choose booklet now appear in the Dock , Tiger - style : it takes on the folder ’s existent ikon , rather than the picture of an point in spite of appearance , and when you select the folder — you do n’t even have to justly - tick or Control - click — you get a hierarchical menu of the folder ’s depicted object . you’re able to voyage to any item in any pamphlet , and then press the detail to open up it . ( Quay works its magic through a hidden procedure shout QuayMenu . ) You remove a Quay - make folder from the Dock by dragging it off , just as you would any other point .
But instead of just give you back hierarchical menus , Quay also provide a phone number of viewing option that were n’t available in Tiger . My favored — something I ’ve been want for years — is the power to choose how these hierarchical menus are sorted : by name , date change , date make , or kind ; you could also invert the sort order . you could prefer the size of icon in the menu , and you could even view invisible items and drive Mac OS cristal parcel to show their contents as hierarchal menus .
I also opt Quay ’s overture to identifying aliases over Tiger ’s : aliases are announce by a black - and - white badge to the left of the detail ’s icon in the fare ( Tiger simply displays an alias icon ) . And if , like me , there are some booklet for which you think Stacks exercise well , the estimable news is that Quay does n’t take over your entire docking facility — you’re able to have a mix of Stacks and Quay booklet .
Of course , as I noted above , Quay is currently in the genus Beta - examination stage . The rendering I ’ve been using , 1.0b5 , still has a few visual oddities and minor bugs . In addition , although you’re able to add multiple Quay - create folders to the Dock , only one will provide hierarchical menus ; this restriction will be removed in the official departure version .
But even with these minor issues , I ’ve been enjoying Quay . Until Apple gives us the option to watch leaflet in the Dock as hierarchal menu — if that ever happen — utilities like Quay will be a welcome accession to many Macs . I ’m looking forward to the final release .
Quay requires Mac OS X 10.5 or afterwards .
