@noreply: Honestly, at first this is what I thought they were talking about. It would actually be really useful for me!

As for "regular" Spaces, I currently use 9 to their full effect + Expose. I don't know how to live without them anymore and feel crippled when I have to switch over to Windows now and then.

Gilbert

@noreply: Myself 36 icons in dock!

Most concerned about Safari Bookmarks Bar running out of space. Note to self, buy more screen estate.

noreply

@Gilbert: Maybe som day someone will come up with Menu Bar Spaces;-)

noreply

I prefer Windows' taskbar+quicklaunch over the OS X dock/menu. There are a million ways to make windows look like a mac, I still haven't found a way to do the opposite.

SamburgerHandwich

Damn. I just realized I have 6 icons in my dock. I use quicksilver to launch everything so I don't even know what I use the dock for. I could probably delete most of them.

PatrickTulskie

I get what they were trying to convey in using "Spaces" in their title, but I still think it's a confusing oversight. I had to read the short post twice just to really nail down what it does.

At least I think I did...

So you click on a preset category housed by your menu bar, which in turn alters the content of your dock to match your preferences, correct?

If that is indeed the case, I can see the value here, especially considering that I have literally 66 icons in my Dock as we speak. (Then again, I also have a million icons in my menu bar as well, so I really don't know where the categories will fit...)

I'll give it a try!

Gilbert

Just installed this and started to use it. The interface was a little peculiar at first, and not without its glitches.

Currently, you set your Dock Spaces by beginning with your default Dock and then switching over to the desired Dock Space (you can have up to four + Default).

Once you've selected a desired Dock Space--in my case, I switched to "Writing"--you can then proceed to eliminate from, or add to via the Application folder, the icons in your Dock.

When you're done this becomes the setting for your selected Dock Space. Mine includes, Finder, Preview, Word, Pages, TextEdit, Final Draft, Dictionary...and so on.

A switch back to "Default" will restore your original dock.

At this point, all was smooth, but then I noticed that the software didn't handle more than one Dock Space + the default too well.

Case in point: I went into the preferences and allowed up to five Dock Spaces. I labeled them accordingly and then switched to my default Dock, thinking it was a good starting point to start for building another. However, when I switched it to my third Dock Space, Music, it immediately changed my Dock to the "Writer" layout.

Then I thought, okay, I guess it uses the non-default spaces as a basis, so I tested a theory by adding an icon to the new Music Dock Space: iTunes. Then I switched over to my Writer Dock Space and iTunes was still there. Very frustrating.

A more organized, though slightly slower, approach would be to create a new Dock Space by bringing up a two-window pane which lists all of your available applications on one pane, and allows you to add or subtract others onto/from the other pane. Name your new Dock Space, and "boom", you're done.

Any help on getting the additional Dock Spaces to work would be greatly appreciated. This software is actually useful to me.

Gilbert

Note: I've already hid the dock...

A3sthetix

I'm Googling how to get rid of the dock altogether. I think the dock just takes up my valuable screen space.

@SamburgerHandwich: I agree, QuickSilver makes life better.

A3sthetix

I setup five docks so I could ignore the default, then set the docks in numerical order to match to my spaces. I thought I could come up with a AppleScript to auto change the dock. I used this script as the base of my attempt ([www.macosxhints.com]) and this was as close as I got, it works, but it uses 3% cpu on average and it occasionally glitches.

Applescript source: [danl.pastebin.org]

loudambiance

Okay - so does it let you specify apps that you do NOT want to appear in the Dock at all? I know Dockless and Dock Dodger do that, but I could go for a simpler alternative.

GBMax

I made aliases for programs I used, group them into folders, then dragged the folder onto the dock. That way I can click on the folder to get a list of programs (like my Music one has iTunes, Garage Band, etc). It is like having a bunch of "sub docks" all on my main dock.

mrnohr

I love how photoshop has its own dock in the dropdown.

SamburgerHandwich

This app seems like it'd be really useful but it's still a bit buggy, I think, and the setup was confusing.

And when I hit "Reset to Original Dock" I accidentally wiped out my original dock settings, and for some reason my Exposé/Spaces settings disappeared as well. I wish I'd saved my original settings somehow!

estherbester

@SamburgerHandwich: It makes sense really, why would you want to make OS X ugly?

reallyseth

@A3sthetix:

You might like this. It works for Finder, too, with pretty interesting results. Check the comments for the plist string to get rid of the dock altogether.

As for me, I have Finder and a Downloads stack in my dock :) That's it. There's not much need for the dock if you use Quicksilver.

rychdom

@mrnohr: That's a neat trick! I'll have to give that one a shot... I found that the most frustrating thing about Spaces on Leopard was that when I had, say, Firefox open in one space, and then tried to open another Firefox window in another space, it would by default take me to the original open window... in the other space! Argh.

caitlindimareoliver