Tài liệu Setting Up the Dock phần 2 doc

But you can force a certain Dock folder to sprout a fan or a grid all the time, rather than

letting Mac OS X decide. From the Dock folder's shortcut menu (Section 4.2.2), choose

View As Fan or View As Grid.

From now on, you'll always get the fan, or always get the grid.

Note: When your Dock is positioned on a side of the screen instead of the bottom, you

alwaysget the grid, never the fan. The View As command doesn't even appear in the

shortcut menu.

Both the grid and the fan have limited storage space for icons. (The exact number

depends on your monitor size. In any case, if there are too many icons to display at once,

the last icon says, "24 more in Finder" (or whatever the number is). Click that icon to

open the folder's regular window, where all the contents are available.

Of course, then you've defeated the fan's step-saving purpose.

Tip: The ideal solution, of course, would be what Mac OS X had in 10.0 through 10.4: a

simple pop-up list of everything in a Dock folder. That's exactly what you get with the

free program Quay, available for download from this book's "Missing CD" at

www.missingmanuals.com

4.2.2.2. Ready-made stacks

When you first install Mac OS X 10.5, you get a couple of starter stacks just to get you

psyched. One is called Downloads; the other is Documents. (Both of these folders are

physically inside your Home folder. But you may well do most of your interacting with

them on the Dock.)

The Downloads folder, new in Leopard, collects three kinds of Internet arrivals:

• Files you download from the Web using Safari

• Files you receive in an iChat file-transfer session

• File attachments you get via email using Mail.

Unless you intervene, they're sorted by the date you downloaded them.

It's handy to know where to find your downloads, and nice not to have them all cluttering

your desktop.