Great idea, just did it myself, but the part I'm mift about is one that everyone has been complaining about the Stacks, the look of stacked icons. What a messy look. And to make matters worse the Alias little arrow icon is in the lower left corner of every darn stacked icon so it looks like an endless row of little black curved arrows.

The only way around it that I can find is make the first item in your stacked folder be the desired icon you want and hope its blocky in shape (no transparent elements through it) and large enough to distract from the alias arrow.

Please Apple, give us a CHOICE of the Stacks icon, that isn't asking to much is it? lol

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Yeah, surely at least the alias arrows was an obvious thing for them to remove in the stacks; unless they just haven't changed anything like that since they butchered the functionality and made folders full of aliases the best/only use of stacks!

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Yeah well Apple didn't but after I posted my first reply I found a tip on how to remove the alias arrows from Macworlds site. I can confirm that this works with Leopard, except the [killall Finder] command did not reset the arrows like it said. But a simple re-login made it work like a charm.

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But then you lose alias badges in all cases in the Finder - alias badges do serve a purpose.

I agree with above that it is annoying to have all those arrows, and there is no need for an alias badges to be shown in the Dock - every icon on the Dock is an alias. It makes no difference to know that some point to aliases and some point to the file directly. Apple should just filter those badges out of the Dock.

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