Revisiting Stacks Customisation:
I have been messing around with customization when I came to my dock… I love the new shelf, so there was no work to be done there then I looked at my stacks. There ugly with all those different icons that come to the front. So I sought out to fix this. Heres what I ended up with…
And heres how I did it… 1. I made a new folder within the stack 2. I renamed it 0 (zero) so it will sit at the front. (make sure the stacks are sorted by name) 3. That made some uniformity but I needed more so I used the icons from my computer. 4. this is done by copying the icon from its location in this case downloads, applications, and documents. Simply find the icon you want, open Info (right click get info or command + I) then click the icon in the upper left of get info and watch in highlight then copy it with command + C. Then go to the folder you want to change the icon (the stack folder named zero) then do the same (get info, highlight) and just paste with command + V.This may be a little confusing at first, if you need help changing the icon search changing icons on a mac in google it might help a little more. Leave comments and questions I can help there too.
December 10th, 2007 at 9:15 am
I’ve successfully changed the icon appearance as listed in the above steps, however I couldn’t get the dock to show just the “folder” image even though I have a new folder in the stack named 0 (and it’s first, sorted by name). The folder doesn’t even show in the stack, but when I open it in Finder it’s there. Suggestions? I’m still getting a PDF icon in my dock instead of Folder 0.
December 10th, 2007 at 9:21 am
Restart your computer.
Same thing happened to me.
December 10th, 2007 at 10:17 am
Didn’t think of looking around?
http://www.leopardtricks.com/leopard/changing-stack-icons-in-the-dock
December 10th, 2007 at 10:21 am
my apologies I have searched many other sites and not found this method…
December 10th, 2007 at 10:22 am
or you can killall Dock
December 10th, 2007 at 10:54 am
worked like a charm. Thanks!
p.s. the Orion Icons download on apple.com has nicer-looking folder icons, sleek..
December 10th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Orion icons! nice pick
December 10th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Check out the icons on this page: http://optica-optima.blogspot.com/
Nice replacements for in the dock!!
December 11th, 2007 at 2:16 am
This trick was submitted by me over a month ago. lol
But it’s just as good the second time around!
December 11th, 2007 at 3:50 am
I use the stacks overlay icons from here:
http://t.ecksdee.org/post/19001860
which uses a similar approach to display the stacks in labelled “trays”.
Hopefully, Apple will figure out to add some kind of feature like this to stacks in a future release.
December 11th, 2007 at 5:37 am
rockmsockm: indeed it was submitted previously, thats why I put “revisiting” above the post, it’s nice to revisit some tricks (obviously not all) I sure do delete a lot of re-submitted content every day! hehe. The comments are gold though, especially if someone has found some neat software or something extra to go along with the trick!
December 11th, 2007 at 7:00 am
Relating to Stacks, does anyone know if its possible to have the “Today” list placed as a Stack??? Today is very convenient but you have to go in the Finder every time to use it.
Thanks,
Johannes
December 12th, 2007 at 8:15 am
LOL @ james… I just remember some guy getting snippy with me because I hadn’t searched the site before submitting a while ago.
(PS I I try to avoid snippiness. lol)
I wonder if there’s been any talks/rumors about apple attempting to allow some new customization options for stacks in some future OS update…
December 13th, 2007 at 5:22 am
Thanks! I’m new to mac and leopard, and i really love the graphic of the original stack icon