Graphite Diffuse Dock for OS X

Recently Upgraded to El Capitan (from Mavericks) and noticed just how ugly the black outline stroke looks on the Dock. This is absend from the HUD UI's in OS X, so I decided to get rid of it and attemp to fuse the colors coming in from the wallaper or the stuff below it, but still make it so that the form still clearly seperates itself from what's under. To slightly soften the dock even more there is a "diffused" drop shadow. After the Dock renders it's own effects on top of that PNG, the edge picks up a slightly more satured color.

Dock replacement resources: http://minims.kontakts.lv/files/Dark-Dock-Background.zip

Of course to make this happen you have to disable System Integrity Protection (for the procedure, turn it back on after this is done) and put the provided resources in /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/

Haven't tested it on retina screens, don't have the hardware, comments appriciated.

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Posted on Nov 19, 2015

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