Fix the Leopard 2D Dock: remove the white edge borders

Filed under Apple, Software on November 15th, 2007

On a recent post titled “How to fix the Leopard GUI ugliness (dock, menubar, stacks)” I wrote about turning your Leopard Dock to a 2D one, and complained about the white edges you get when you do so.

Adam Jury commented about how you can get rid of those lines if you just remove the files named bottom1.png to bottom5.png inside the folder /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app.

I got to work, and here’s a more refined version of the same tip: replace those same files with 5 fully transparent PNGs of the same name. This way, Dock.app still finds the files it needs, and it’s less likely that a possible system update (say 10.5.1) will try to restore your missing files. That said, the end result is identical to what Adam proposes.

I have prepared a zip archived with the necessary files. Just unzip them and replace the regular ones inside /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/ [to see this folder from the Finder, select /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app and control-click -> Show Package Contents].

Get the replacements here.

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