Have you ditched the Dock?

[brodie]

I recently exchanged the dock for ASM, so fed up with being unable to get to the resize tab in photoshop etc i opted to rid myself of the dock in exchange for the old applemenu style drop down.
anyone else ditched the dock and what for?

[Phil St. Romain]

Brodie, I've moved this to OS Xperiences, as it doesn't seem to be a system troubleshooting issue.

Phil

[Brad Nelson]

Brodie: Currently I'm using the Dock on my one and only install on my home machine. It's on the left and on autohide and isn't too much of a problem because I'm not using my typical suite of graphics apps on this machine. But even with two monitors or one big monitor, screen real estate is always at a premium and killing the Dock (which I've done before) works just fine. I found that Drop Drawers (which allows you to have a small pop-up app-switcher tab) is a workable solution to replace the killed Dock and is faster to access (IMO) then the ASM app menu.

[brodie]

i tried a few, drag thing, drop drawers and launchbar, but i've found that ASM does the least with the least amount of fuss, if i had more F keys to shortcut with i'd forget ASM altogether.
the dock had its uses, instant access and notification (often annoying though) and if it respected given applications i'd have it back, but til then its dead.

[nice.scientist]

yeah i ditched my dock soon as i found out about dragthing...although i was having minimisation problems with windows so i got my dock back and hid it on the side of my screen...after doing that i got an icq msg and the little icq icon poped onto my screen and started bouncing fro the dock :P very interesting little adition in 10.1

[merwinjk]

I have it on the left with auto-hide. I share my computer with the rest of my family and the Dock is very easy for them to understand and use. Moving it to the left side long ago made it much more unobtrusive, too.

[AHunter3]

I ditched the Dock during the public beta. My app-switching replacement moved around some as I experimented, but I settled on X-Assist, which also gives me a very nice OtherMenu-style application and file launcher.

The only remaining function I'm missing is the ability to do something minimize-like with the yellow button widgets. Right now they are disabled. I'd be happy with having them go to the bottom of the screen, like MacOS 8/9 open folders do in the Finder, or having them collapse like classical WindowShade. (There IS a MacOS X hack that converts the yellow button to a WindowShade function, but it requires the damn Dock in order to work)

[cybergoober]

I happen to like the Dock. I have all my apps in one folder, and aliases to all the servers I frequently connect to in another. It does everything I need it to do. Could it be improved? Sure. I did use X-Assist for awhile but eventually I realized it wasn't really saving me any time, it just felt familiar. Now the dock feels familiar and I'm very comfortable using it.