Mavericks Dock: Change color

I download the dockmod beta for Mavericks and the most I could do was change the dock and make it transparent, I want to make it look exactly like the IOS 7 dock, does anyone have a file to paste on the dock and make it look like IOS 7?

I thank jrebergen too, but although I have carefully followed his directions, I was not able to achieve the result.

I believe I discovered that the Mac Pro Retina not need to change the files "indicator_medium" and "indicator_medium @ 2x" but must be replaced files "indicator_small" and indicator_small @ 2x "(all in PNG).

Then doing "killall Dock" on terminal I finally got the desired result.

Thanks again jrebergen!

It's the transparency that is so terrible. The only way I can get the dock and menu bar to look tolerable is by going with a solid charcoal screensaver. Still hard to see the the icons because the dock is too light. Ugh.

I'm confidant Apple is working on a update for this and many other things. Logic says that this wil take a wile. You can't put out an update whitin a few weeks. They only do that if there is a security risk. With IOS you also see transitions with every update they put out. But I'm with you that I lost a little bit of fate in the designers behind IOS and OSX. Some things are so obvious that you are wondering who's really looking at usability. Let's hope an update comes soon...

jrebergen wrote:

I think I have a temporary solution for everybody that has his Dock connected to the bottom. I just replaced the 'shimmers' (is that the right word?!) with my own design! At least it's more visible which apps are open.

Bar:

Triangle:

1. It's very easy. Download the Bar or the Triangle. (2 png's)
2. Go to the System folder -> Library -> CoreServices -> Dock.
3. On Docks right mouseclick "Show package contents" and navigate to Contents -> Resources.
4. Make a copy of the 'indicator_medium.png' and 'indicator_medium@2x.png' to a different location.
5. Copy the 2 png files to that location (identity controle window pops up)
6. DONE!

Jrebreergen - thanks for this.

Apple - you all need to stop developing UI / UX in a dark room blind-folded and buried 20 feet under ground. Additionally stop w/ the knee-jerk reactions to what direction Scott Forstall was taking things byt going to the other extreme and find a middle gorund balance. A complete lack of detail for an interface is not an interface - while going to the opposite end by having things too realistic is also not a best practices.

Quit taking away our choices and options and telling us what is best for us and that we must do things Apple's way or tough sh*t.

Mavericks is a joke. The last stable and decent version of MacOS was version 10.6.8. Go back - install a copy of it on something - and dig through the operating system and teach yourselves what good and stable interface design actuall is.

I am not confident Apple are working on anything to change the dock color scheme. Why should they? It is pure personal taste.

Jp Cooper wrote:

Apple - you all need to stop developing UI / UX in a dark room blind-folded and buried 20 feet under ground.

Hopefully you've been around these forums long enough to know that most everybody reading this is just a user and nobody at Apple capable of making any of the changes you are asking for will likely read anything you've said here.

Feel free to make your feelings known to them as Feedback or sign up for a free developer account and file as a Bug Report.

Jp Cooper wrote:

..... A complete lack of detail for an interface is not an interface - while going to the opposite end by having things too realistic is also not a best practices.

Not too sure what is lacking in detail or contrast with this (remember the thread started with background on dock located at side of screen.)

There is no purety, when eyes are strained by use, normal! The gray dock on sides, are as useless as observing thru three-types reading glasses. Gray obliterates the dimension of icon's edge, and of colors being made "blander" no response. Apple is dragging anchor, making excuses and on two other measures-- in finder-- I must await the 'engineers' indecision as "appall (apple) is too big to Fail" may yet be the anchor?

Making 'peace' after 33 years of war annually, might be an easier challenge.

I changed from 10.6.8 to OS 10.9. and basically there are many foreinstances, all of which, to the best of my interest and needs (software) are "there is no-choice" given to the user. No pop-downs w how would you like to use the Dock'stechnics, or waht color document page would best suit the next document, or did the above meet your command sense of usage/usages? Far as background, transparent or of no image on monitor why was gray chosen in the first foreinstance??!

R Ski wrote:

There is no purety, when eyes are strained by use, normal! The gray dock on sides, are as useless as observing thru three-types reading glasses. Gray obliterates the dimension of icon's edge, and of colors being made "blander" no response. ...

Which of the icons in my pic can't you see clearly? (bear in mind they are even clearer in reality) The blandest is Launchpad and it is clearly visibe. Maybe my matte hi-res 15" non-retina display is better than most, but I can see all of them clearly. OK I preferred the transparent background and I think the designers failed to notice that a white "shelf" on the bottom position would become a white "background" on the side position, but it is quite usable. particularly with a dark wallpaper.

Loads of complaints about loss of colored icons in Aperture made no difference to Apple's design philsophy. Learn to live with the new dock I guess is what I am saying.

Could you make a right point arrow for those of us who have the Dock on the left side. The arrow you provided works better than the line, but it is skewed a bit because it is pointing up.

I love the arrow you made but I don't have any PNG file manipulator to twist the image 90 degrees.

Thanx.

No, it was a suggestion. If you prefer, make your own light background jpeg with a black stripe down the side. I would have thought if you like light wallpaper the white dock would not offend. Believe me if they got a million feedbacks they would change. Lets see what the next OS has in, probably the same. If you upgraded from ML, revert back using Time Machine. Shouldn't take more than an hour or so to make your recent files safe and revert back.