So they finally have returned the "Put Away" command from OS 9!

And, look, now with Snow Leopard, you can navigate heirarchies of folders from the dock! Wow! Just like you could do with menus in Tiger!

But unless they've dumped the stupid dock icon for stacks (so who's bright idea was it that it made much more sense for folder icons to show the top-most items in the folder rather than the folder's icon???), it's still broken. So how is it better that, when I put my home folder in the dock, the icon is that of the Applications folder?

I thought Apple's goal with snow leopard was to fix the bugs and improve the performance, and not adding new glitzy stuff. Does this mean all the bugs have been squashed?

Because I'm still waiting for Leopard's "10-times faster" performance some imbecile wrote on these forums back when it was in beta...

"Put back" wasn't an OS 9 development it went back to at least System 7.0, and maybe earlier.

Still, those screenshots have to be the dullest news item of the decade.

You think that's dull, someone has been through every single "control panel" to look for the differences from the leopard version.

As we speak, that same person is now reading through every plist in the system to find out any that have changed...

testudo - to change from top-most icon to folder icon in the dock for downloads and recent apps select Display as Folder rather than stack.

To quote the article: "Most of the running processes are now 64-bit for Intel-based systems, while the application footprints have been reduced. Users also have a choice to run applications in 32-bit mode."

Also noticed in some other S/Leopard pics that Apple's apps are still UB. Does this mean PPC support is viable?

"Put back" wasn't an OS 9 development it went back to at least System 7.0, and maybe earlier.

Actually, I believe "Put Away" (as it was called) dated back to version 3, if not version 1, of the Mac OS.

And it also worked on the desktop. So you could structure your folders/files how you wanted it, and, when desired, move it to your desktop, leave it there for whatever period of time, then use Put Away to put it back where it came from.

Less important now with Aliases, but it was a handy and useful feature.

testudo - to change from top-most icon to folder icon in the dock for downloads and recent apps select Display as Folder rather than stack.

Ah, so they finally fixed that. Too bad the dock still doesn't have the capability to open the folder when you click on it, like it always did.

It's not build in to folder handling, but I think if you make an alias of a folder and put it in the dock, you can one-click to open the folder in Leopard. (I still have Tiger on my work machine and cannot check this)

The article says that the new feature is Put Back, which reportedly allows you to restore an item from the Trash to its original location. IIRC, Put Away, in the old systems, allowed the user to return a file to its original location after dragging it to the Desktop.