Dock Piles ~ Just take a look.

>_> · May 21, 2004 7:41PM

- Xidius

paul · May 21, 2004 7:55PM

wow... VERRY nice...

that kind of a thing is hard to articulate... those "screenshots" explain this concept very well...

this would be a really cool feature... you could organize apps in the dock much more efficiently...

what would be even better is if they were likened to "playlists" ála iTunes... so you can have an app in more then one pile... and even smart piles... (any app that connects via port 80 for example... or any app that does not reside on the main partition...)

this is a really good idea...

nebagakid · May 21, 2004 9:22PM

So, it is like a more graphical pop-up menu, except that the pile is not a real folder?

I think what the future may hold is that all of your personal files are in an index, and from that you make playlists and smart playlists of it. The future is iTunes..... today.

mattjohndrow · May 21, 2004 9:28PM

nicely done. i wanna do that

>_> · May 21, 2004 9:52PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Nebagakid

So, it is like a more graphical pop-up menu, except that the pile is not a real folder?

I think what the future may hold is that all of your personal files are in an index, and from that you make playlists and smart playlists of it. The future is iTunes..... today.

Who says Smart Piles isn't a possibility? :P

Though.. that would be annoying. I personally think we should have 100% -direct- control over our docks. Smart Piles would.. Get sorta messy. o_O

- Xidius

admactanium · May 22, 2004 12:01AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Nebagakid

So, it is like a more graphical pop-up menu, except that the pile is not a real folder?

I think what the future may hold is that all of your personal files are in an index, and from that you make playlists and smart playlists of it. The future is iTunes..... today.

i've been waiting for this for a long time. for instance, when you're working on a lot of layouts, you end up copying a single source file all over the place just to make sure you have everything in one place. although this has been minimized since "collect for output" features have been put in, i never understood why we couldn't have a more abstract form of file reference.

luca · May 22, 2004 2:11AM

That would be so cool! I really want that... right now I have a number of application "groups" that I use. Not often, but when I use one, I usually use almost all of them. There's the Fetch/Graphic Converter/Preview/iPhoto combination I use when putting images on my web server, the Toast/DVD2oneX/MacTheRipper/DVD Player combination I use for backing up DVDs. I would love also having an IM clients pile, a browsers pile, a games pile, and a desk accessory (TextEdit, Terminal, Calculator, System Prefs, Stickies) pile.

low-fi · May 22, 2004 3:59AM

NICE. Send it as feedback to apple

arbernaut · May 22, 2004 4:31AM

What would happen if you had, say, a 100 or 200 items in your pile?

defiant · May 22, 2004 4:53AM

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Originally posted by Arbernaut

What would happen if you had, say, a 100 or 200 items in your pile?

Then they'd shrink, like in the Dock.

I'd really like something like that, it looks cool.

vox barbara · May 22, 2004 8:34AM

gorgeous!

Actually, does this "dock pile thing" has something to do with that "piled folder thing", which has been discussed earlier? As far as i can recall piled folders placed on the desktop, right?

macanoid(tm) · May 22, 2004 8:41AM

Here's an animated version of the original Piles idea ::

http://homepage.mac.com/rdas7/piles.html

vox barbara · May 22, 2004 10:13AM

Quote:

Originally posted by macanoid?

Here's an animated version of the original Piles idea ::

http://homepage.mac.com/rdas7/piles.html

wow, this is compelling stuff. Is apple still working behind the fence? Or abandoned ... ?

kim kap sol · May 22, 2004 10:21AM

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Originally posted by Vox Barbara

wow, this is compelling stuff. Is apple still working behind the fence? Or abandoned ... ?

Probably abandoned since it offers nothing compelling over folder the way it's shown in that Flash demo.

Apple could probably make it much more usable than that. Or offer something even better.

vox barbara · May 22, 2004 12:11PM

What?

nano · May 22, 2004 8:40PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Arbernaut

What would happen if you had, say, a 100 or 200 items in your pile?

Then you would then have a cluttered windows computer (the start menu)

kenneth · May 22, 2004 10:51PM

It sounds more like some Dog Piles.

silentechoes · May 23, 2004 1:12AM

Thats not all there was to piles. Piles would automagically collect files according to what you specified, They where basically like smart playlist for files. But they looking inside the file aswell. They could read lines from text documents and such. So if you wanted a pile for all pictures that where 800x600 it would put them in that pile on its own once the picture entered your computer. Self organizing.

Of course this COULD be done with some heavy applescripting as it stands now

kim kap sol · May 23, 2004 9:10AM

What advantage would piles bring over grouping files in a folder or a smart-folder (if it existed)?

macanoid(tm) · May 23, 2004 9:20AM

Visual feedback perhaps?

>_> · May 23, 2004 9:57AM

Quote:

Originally posted by macanoid?

Visual feedback perhaps?

Just to clarify: This is a different implementation of the piles (un)feature.

- Xidius

Dock Piles ~ Just take a look.

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