By Dan Frakes
If you've read any Mac-related Web sites over the past few weeks, you've surely seen more than a few complaints about Stacks, Leopard's new feature that lets you put a folder in the Dock and then see a graphical display of that folder's contents by clicking on it.
The idea behind Stacks is to provide fast, visually-enhanced access to files in a folder. By letting you view icon previews of those files via a single click, Stacks makes it easy to open a file without having to dig through the Finder to locate it.
However, as many Macworld editors—not to mention Macworld readers—have noted, Stacks is not all peaches and roses. It has a number of interface issues, and it's missing one of the most useful features of the folder-in-the-Dock functionality of older versions of Mac OS X. Now that I've used the release version of Leopard for a few weeks, here's my take on what's good and bad about Stacks. I also suggest some minor changes Apple could make to Stacks that would increase its appeal among fans and critics alike.
Go to http://www.macworld.com/2007/11/features/stacks/index.php?lsrc=mwweek to read the entire article.
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