1419 Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) introduced "Stacks" in the Dock. Many people, however, prefer the previous implementation of hierarchical popup menus from folders in the Dock.

Quay is a simple app that brings back the hierarchical menus, but with several additional capabilities.

Why use Quay instead of some other, superficially similar, application?

Quay items are on the right (or bottom) side of the Dock, just like you're used to. There are no apps running on the other side of the Dock; no extra distracting "running" lights. It uses the system's Dock, not a secondary palette or window.

Quay is a simple Cocoa application. You run it just to configure a popup item in the Dock. For the popups, it runs an on-demand background tool that uses very little CPU time and memory.

Quay does no magic. It doesn't hack the Dock in any way, and calls no private system interfaces.

New in Version 1.1b1

• Quay now works transparently on your Stack folders in the Dock, and uses the exact same clicks used for the Dock.


• Quay overlays a white gradient arrow over the clicked icon so you can easily see which menus are Quay's and which are the Dock's.


• New sort options; including by Label, by Application, and Unsorted; the alphabetical sort now shows the exact order used by the Finder.


• Can now show 64x64-pixel icons with QuickLook previews.


• 10-fold speed improvement over the previous version, especially for large folders.


• Alias indicators in the menus are gone, but you can now show Labels, dates, folder counts or file sizes.


• The menu width is now limited to a reasonable value and too-long filenames are truncated in the middle.


• If you select larger icons, longer filenames are shown in multiple lines.


• Keyboard navigation is now fully supported.


• Improved error message if you try to run it on a pre-Leopard system.


• "Popular" folder names are now localized.


• More "Popular" icons.


• You can now place Quay icons on both sides of the Dock.


• You can now see your full serial number after registering.


• The serial number text field now accepts copy&paste; it still won't accept drag&drop, and the help text has been amended for that.


• Fixed a bug where closing the registration window prematurely would "hang" the application.


• General menu appearance and alignment has been improved.


• You can copy and paste custom icons from the main Quay window.


• New installer runs from distribution disk image; it also uninstalls.

System requirements:
Version 1.0b4 (Size: 305807 bytes) is for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and up, for both PowerPC and Intel.

There is no trial period, but only the first Quay item in the Dock will work until you register - registration will be enabled in the final version.

The tentative price will be €7 (about US$10)

For more information, visit:
http://www.brockerhoff.net/quay/

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