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> Apple has done away with the faux-3D shelf look here and has put the icons on a simple translucent background instead.

I like the faux 3d dock . . . it'd be nice if this was configurable.

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When they switched from the 2d dock to the 3d dock a lot of people said the same thing.

I like how apple is slowly reversing their design decisions. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the return of the spatial finder ;)

Similarities between the new dock and the dock in pre-Leopard is an exception, I think. There is much more not in common design-wise than there is in common.

I tried using the spacial feature of Nautilus, a file manager for Linux. What's your usage of a spatial file manager? I couldn't see it being beneficial to my file browsing in any way. Just curious.

Valid question, don't know why it was downvoted.

The short answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_file_manager#Advantage...

The verbose answer: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2003/04/finder/

It might be. There are two different style options for it right now, aren't there?

[edit] That's not a rhetorical question; I'm not at home with my mac so I don't know for sure.

There was a "defaults" option for a flat dock in 10.7 and 10.8... one wonders why they removed it for 10.9, only to change the default back to flat in 10.10.

I guess first the Forstall influence giving us ugly 3D everywhere and now Ive's hand.

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