OS X Leopard 071031
“Stacks” — An Unmitigated Disaster
Subtitle: The Ugliest Thing You Have Ever Seen in the Mac GUI
 
At left is what I see if I click the “Downloads” folder
at the right side of the Dock on my 24" Intel iMac. This is the ugliest, most confused presentation of information that I have seen an any OS. The Mac OS is the last place I would expect to see such an appalling mess.

To see the entire contents of the “Downloads” folder, click the curved arrow in the circle at the top of the “Stack.”
 
It gets worse—I can’t click the arrow.
 
This is what happens when I run my cursor up into the “Stack”— the “Stack” moves to the right and the arrow disappears off the right side of the display.

Workaround: Turn Dock magnification off or, by trial-and-error, shrink the Dock until the arrow remains on the display.

What were they thinking!?

 
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