5.9.17/ 16 November 2016 ( 2016-11-16)WebsiteDragThing is a application for. Intended for and as an, DragThing allows for multiple docks with user-specified settings such as color, texture and shape. Dock contents can be organized into and paying the shareware fee enables the user to assign a to any dock item.DragThing has won many awards, and in 2010 gave it 4.5 mice, highlighting its utility for users who preferred using the mouse over keyboard-oriented launchers such as or.History In its early versions, DragThing brought many features useful in a environment to such as application switching and an onscreen representation of running processes.

These features were not implemented by Apple until Mac OS 8.5.DragThing was one of the first applications to adopt the appearance on Mac OS 8 and ran in the on Apple's aborted project. The DragThing release schedule slowed between 1998 and 2000, as its developer James Thomson was then employed at as part of the team working on 's and Dock. He surmised that the built-in Dock of OS X would soon make DragThing obsolete. Thomson left Apple shortly after Mac OS X was released and resumed work on DragThing, releasing version 4.0 on 24 March 2001, skipping version 3. None of Thomson's code survives in the current shipping version of Apple's Dock.DragThing was first released on 1 May 1995 and celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2005.

It was praised in a 2004 article by, who said '.if I could have taken all the lessons learned in Systems 1 through 9 and applied them to System X, I certainly wouldn’t have ended up with the Dock. No, I would have ended up with DragThing.' In late 2018, the software developer. This decision is confirmed in 2019, with its updated to say:DragThing is written using the 32-bit Carbon APIs that Apple have now removed in macOS 10.15 Catalina. It will no longer run if you update to Catalina, and there are no plans to make a new version that will. We are sorry to say, DragThing has launched its last app.

64-bit support would require completely rewriting the code from the ground up, a process which would take us at least a year to complete. Unfortunately, there is not enough of a market out there these days, such that it would be financially viable for us to do so. References.

I adore DragThing. It's been part of my Mac environment since around OS 10.3 or 10.4 (can't remember). Dragthing – you will be missed! Like (1) Version 5.9.17. 04 October 2018. I upgraded to Mojave and now the icons are all OK. (see my comments of October 13, 2017. Let's enjoy the last year of Dragthing. Sony vgp uvc100 driver for mac.