Criticism
Critics of Stacks stated that Stacks as originally conceived had several usability issues that might not appeal to all users of Mac OS X Leopard:
- The complete elimination of classic Dock folder list menus with hierarchical folder browsing, a feature which had existed since the initial 10.0 release. However, "List" view has been added to OS 10.5.2.
- The emphasis of form over function in Stacks icon displays—fan arcs are considered visually appealing but of dubious functional value (although others noted that the arcing form clearly differentiates an open stack from the grid of files and volumes that may be on the desktop below).
- In Mac OS X Leopard, the grid view truncated file names, and its maximum number of icons was dependent on monitor resolution (e.g. 63 icons max at 1280x800). This was corrected with the scrollable stacks in Snow Leopard.
- Dock icons for "Folder" stacks that are often misleading because Stacks build icons from folder contents and do not allow for custom icons to be applied by the user. For example, a user's Home folder shows the Applications folder (or if that does not exist in Home folder, the Desktop folder), while the Photos folder is just a "stack" of plain blue folders created by iPhoto. However, this was addressed with OS 10.5.2: you can now choose to represent a stack with its original Folder icon, as displayed in Finder.
- Stacks can accidentally be removed. Though it is a relatively simple process in replacing the stack, many users do not know how to replace them, thus causing trouble.
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