Matt Legend Gemmell – Hierarchical folders in the Leopard Dock with Quay

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Hierarchical folders in the Leopard Dock with Quay

Still hate Stacks in the Leopard Dock? Rainer Brockerhoff has just released version 1.0 of Quay, his Leopard-or-later utility to give you back hierarchical browsing of folders in the Dock.

It uses no hacks or hidden features, and actually gives you a fair bit more functionality than Tiger’s Dock used to. €7 shareware (about $10).

Quay lets you change the folder’s icon in the Dock, and superimpose badges.

You can even change the colour of the folder itself, for easier visual classification.

You can also choose the size of icons shown in the menu (or whether they’re visible at all), whether to show invisible files, how to sort the list, and a few other things.

It’s rather cool, and a free trial version is available - head on over to the Quay homepage to find out more.

2 Comments

Martin
28 November 2007 @ 4pm

Very nice! I have to say though that after my initial “ouch, where’s my menu gone” I’ve now got pretty used to stacks just the way Apple intended them. My only customisation is that I have some lovely little draw icons from a Japanese site that the stacks now appear to sit in :)

Matt Legend Gemmell
30 November 2007 @ 10am

Hey Martin,

I saw those drawer icons; they’re quite pretty. Quay actually has them built-in, as an optional addition to a docked folder icon.