In Leopard, the new way of using dock folders is Stacks or Grid view. I must admit, they are most appealing to the eye, but not efficient as far as using them goes. In Mac OS X Tiger, you had the ability to browse through a folder in the dock, just by right-clicking on it. Sure, there are many developers out there who have already made applications that recreate the Tiger-style dock folders in Leopard, but why bother downloading it when you have Quicksilver? A lot of people may have misunderstood all of what Quicksilver is capable of. I use it daily as part of my workflow. I’ll share a neat trick to enable those “Tiger-style” folders with Quicksilver.
- If you don’t already own Quicksilver, download it here.
- Open it up by pressing the default hotkey, Control and Spacebar.
- Once it’s open, hold down ⌘ (Command) and the “,” keys to access Quicksilver’s preferences.
- Click on the “Triggers” section.
- On the bottom left corner of the Triggers window, click on the “+” symbol and select “HotKey”.
- In the drop-down window, type in “app” until the Applications folder icon appears.
- When it does, hit the “Tab” key.
- Type “con” until “Show Contents Menu” action appears.
- Click on the “Save” button to save the trigger.
- Now the final step is to add a keystroke to enable it.
- Click on the “i” icon on the bottom right-hand corner of the Triggers window.
- Click on the “Hot Key” field and hold down the keys you want to be the trigger.
- Click on the “i” icon to close the slide-out drawer.
- Now you’ve got drop-down “Tiger-style” windows anywhere!
