Finder 'Smiley Mac face' icon blurred in Dock

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Finder 'Smiley Mac face' icon blurred in Dock

Not really a problem but kind of annoying, when I minimize a window in Finder and then hover over it with my mouse in the dock I noticed the 'Smiley Mac face' is blurred.
Any idea what causes this? never seen it happen before on any of my Macs apart from my new Dual Core.
Thanks.
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2Ghz Dual Core PowerMac G5
Mac OSX10.4
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Dual Core 2GHz PMG5, Mac OS X (10.4.2), 2.5GB RAM

Posted on Jan 27, 2006 11:02 AM

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Answer 1

Episcript

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Jan 28, 2006 1:22 PM in response to theclash

What do you mean exactly? Does something happen to the icon when you hover your pointer over the icon? I have a minimized finder window on my dock right now and I'm not noticing anything different when I move my pointer over it, aside from the folder name being displayed. I don't have the dock zoom animation activated if that helps.

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theclash Author

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Jan 28, 2006 3:56 PM in response to Episcript

Hi, If you minimize a window in Finder into the dock, run your mouse over it and you will see the minimized window in the doc with a nice shiny Finder Mac smiley face attached to it right? (yep Im using magnification btw)
Well the Mac smiley face on the minimized windows in my dock is blurred and it looks awful.
Not a problem just so annoying, but just one of those weird Mac OS things which happen from time to time I guess but still I wonder why the heck it is doing this?
Cheers

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theclash Author

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Jan 28, 2006 3:57 PM in response to theclash

This just get's even more weird.
If I put the Dock size to 'Max' you can still quite clearly see the blurred icons on the minimized windows. Now if I maximize the windows then minimize them again the icon goes back to normal! nice and clear.
Arrgggghhh these little things are so annoying!

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Episcript

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Jan 28, 2006 6:38 PM in response to theclash

Activated zoom. Mine seems fine. I even tried making the dock icons really small and then set the zoom settings to max. The icons scales fine. Maybe the dock is forgetting to scale it properly.

Could you try making the dock icons smaller. Then set the zoom to max. I think it would likely make it look even blurrier. If that's true, then the dock is failing to redraw the icon to meet accomodate the larger size, it's just using the exact same icon, and it ends up looking very blurry when made really large. That's just my hunch on this. I don't know specifically what OS X does to render the dock, just some surface knowledge.

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