Hierarchy

With the release of Mac OS X 10.5.0, Apple took away a feature of the Dock that had been present since Mac OS X 10.0 — the ability to right-click (or control-click) on a folder in the Dock and see a hierarchical menu of the contents of the Dock.

Apple restored this functionality to the Dock with its 10.5.2 update, and I couldn’t be happier.  I won’t be releasing any more versions of Hierarchy, but I’ll leave the latest version available to anybody who’d like to check it out (or, for whatever reason, can’t upgrade to 10.5.2).

Hierarchy is a freeware application that will create a small palette that replaces the functionality of placing folders in the Dock. Any folders or files can be dropped into the Hierarchy palette. Files can be launched from the palette, and folders can either be opened in the Finder with a left click or browsed in a hierarchical menu by right-clicking, control-clicking, or click-and-holding.

I’d love to hear comments, bug reports, or other feedback; please e-mail them to software at charlesorourke dot com.

Download Hierarchy v1.0.4. (See release notes.) Freeware. Hierarchy requires Mac OS X 10.5.