There are currently plenty of discussions on the world wide wobble about "Stacks" in Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard. Arguments vary between "I loathe it more than scorpion fondue" to "well, it's not that bad". The main problem is that there now is no way to browse nested folders from the Dock.
I am in the "hate, hate, HATE" camp, and I have sent my "kill the stacks now" feedback to Apple.
But I actually understand Apple. One of the things that make Mac OS X less bad than other systems is that it is simpler. And it is simpler because it does not provide the user with all past nifty bits, that worked, but which could be replaced by something else. In Linux and Windows you can change about anything, and all that flexibility leads to confusion, bugs and frustration.
Apple had the idea with Stacks, and it has to stick to them for the time being - because they are there. Letting people work the old way would make testing and development more expensive and the UI more complicated.
Hopefully they will come to their senses and find a way to make the Stacks usable, but even if they don't, there is method in their madness.
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