![]() Nonetheless many users like the appearance of the old Dock enough to desire the change. Obviously something like a transparent, three dimensional Dock, versus a flat dock is more of a personal preference thing, and it’s not going to interfere with usability as something like the lack of default contrast to user interface elements in the overall Yosemite appearance. Click on Apply to reset and relaunch the DockĪnd here’s what that looks like in full screen with a complete OS X Yosemite screen shot showing transparency in the windows as well as the Dock:.From cDock, ehoose the “Dock theme:” submenu and select “Transparent” as your Dock option. ![]() Make the OS X Yosemite Dock TransparentĬDock also has a Dock theme to transform the Dock in OS X Yosemite into a transparent panel, which basically does away with the Dock graphics and just makes the icons float above the desktop pictures wallpaper: If 3D isn’t your thing and the flat default isn’t doing it for you either, there’s a few more options that you can play with, perhaps the next best being a Transparent option. The change will stay put until you either revert the setting back to the default, change back to Dark mode and reboot, or when OS X Yosemite is updated in a broader system update, which then returns it to the flat look: Increase Contrast has been enabled in these screenshots as well as the reduce transparency setting: Here’s what they look like next to one another, with the 3D Dock on top, and the flat (dark mode) Dock shown on the bottom. If you’re using Dark Mode, you’ll find the Dock turns back to a whiter lighter Dock in order to have the 3D transparent appearance to it, as of now there’s no way around that, but it’s possible that a new dark theme will be created for cDock in the future. The Dock will refresh and magically turn 3D again.Click the “Dock theme:” submenu and choose “Yosemite 3D”, then click on “Apply”.Unzip the app you’ll need to right-click and choose to “Open” to circumvent Gatekeeper restrictions.Get CDock for free from Source Forget (click the green download button).There’s not much to this one, but because it does modify a system file you may wish to backup your Mac before using it, or if you plan on digging around and replacing any of the Dock image files yourself. Using CDock is easy enough, it’ll just take a moment to return to the older style Dock on a Yosemite Mac.
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