I'm afraid this just doesn't make up for the loss of hierarchical folders in the Dock. If I need a custom icon on the folder I place in the Dock in Tiger I just copy and past it from the Application it represents.

Mark Allen

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Yep, that worked so nice and clean... And way more flexible. In fact I did the same kind of thing mentioned in this hint, but I put them all in the "Applications" folder, which then I could just navigate through in a nice hierarchical popup.

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DragThing

It stinks you have to pay money to get back functionality, but it's a good solution.

However, I like the stacks method myself, only I hate the look, so I put an empty folder with the desired icon and give it a name starting with a space to reflect the stack contents. Sort by name and now you have a much nicer looking stack: a folder that looks like it's stuffed with your documents.

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Right, the is not meant to be a substitute for hierarchically digging thru a menu.

I hope they bring that back for people who want it but I for one never used that tip of putting your hard-disk or app folder on the Dock. It always felt too slow to me.

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