Quay

My only real beef with Leopard so far has been that I lost my ability to right-click on folders in the Dock and get a hierarchical menu with the contents of the folder and subfolders. Goodness only knows why Apple thought it would be a good idea to take that away, since it was considerable user pressure that got the feature added to Mac OS X in the first place.

I’ve spent the past week working on a little Mac app to restore the ability to get hierarchical menus of Leopard folder contents. I was pretty close as of last night — just a few more tweaks to make it something I wouldn’t be embarrassed putting up for public review — but it looks like Rainer Brockerhoff has beat me to it.

His new app is called Quay — there’s nothing posted yet other than the icon, but if the icon is a pretty good indication of exactly what the app will do, it’s a better implementation than mine was anyway.

I’ll continue to finish my little application up anyway and put it up for giggles. It’s going to be freeware, so maybe it will have some use for people who think (like me) that Apple is going to bring this functionality back in an upcoming 10.5.x release, and don’t want to pay for a shareware app in the meantime. But I’ll definitely be interested in checking it out.