Creating stacks for applications 10.5 Leopard
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I had to add an extra step, This guide was originally written for the WWDC 07 Beta
Making stacks is easy right? Well mostly, I found it easy to make them, but the trick was making ones I wanted, and useful stacks as well. I wanted to group applications together, like the Adobe Suite, and others, so here is a quick guide on doing just that.
Find the applications
APPLE+CLICK to select multiple items, I used the tree vieing mode to see them all. The Adobe Suite was tricky like that. Now CTRL+CLICK and make aliases, we'' be putting those in a folder on the next step.
Prepare for the Stacking to begin
In the final version of Leopard, you can't just drag a group of programs into the dock to make a stack, it wants a folder. No problem there, we can fix that, just make a folder in your applications folder and call it CS3 or whatever, then clean up the aliases by removing the alias part of the filenames.
Make it stack!
Drag that folder into the dock, I have not yet found how to give the stack an "Icon". If anyone knows post it in the comments.
If anyone knows a better way, PLEASE SHARE!
Happy stacking!