Leopard Dock Hack

I never really liked the default skin of the dock in Tiger, but the default dock skin in Leopard is even worse. At least from usability point of view, it's harder to see and it's hard to tell which application is in use. The reflection and all that is just too much. It seems like Apple is trying too hard to bling the dock.

I think many people have noticed that when you move the dock side ways (left or right) the skin changes to rather nicer looking black dock. The following code will allow this skin to overwrite the default reflection skin when the dock is placed at the bottom.

So, this is how my dock looked like originally.

Open a command line, such as Terminal which can be found in Utilities folder in Application and run the following code:

"Killall Dock" will restart the dock and when it reappears, your dock should look like this:

Wasn't that easy? Also, if you want to revert back to the original reflective dock, apply the following code: