Proof-of-concept ports Leopard's icon stacks to iPhone (video)
AppleInsider —
By AppleInsider Staff Published: 04:15 PM EST One iPhone developer looking to expand the capabilities of the iPhone's home screen has demonstrated to AppleInsider a working proof-of-concept that implements the Stacks features of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard into the iPhone's Springboard application. Appropriately dubbed "Stack," the project was conceived back in the early days of iPhone hacks through a basic implementation of Mac OS X Leopard's 'Stacks' feature that allows iPhone users to keep a quick-launch list of their applications in their handset's dock. It was written by Irish developer Steven Troughton-Smith. "The first iPhone OS device ...
OS X style Stacks coming to iPhone 3.0
The iPhone User Guide —
Steven Troughton-Smith has posted a video demo of Stack v3.0 which will add stacks capability to the iPhone OS. This version actually allows for multiple stacks by implement the stack as an icon which can be moved anywhere on your SpringBoard.
On a whim, I’d rewritten Stack to actually be an icon in SpringBoard. It can be moved anywhere, has all the same positioning and reordering abilities as any other icon, it doesn’t interfere with other apps, and is generally the cleanest and best way I could ever implement Stacks (yes, with an ’s’, there can be more ...


