Any way to theme the dock in Mountain Lion

I've been using Dock Library for the past few versions of osx to theme my dock with a dark glass background, I find it much easier to see the icons with my choice of wallpapers if there is a dark contrast behind the icons.
Is there any way to do this in mountain lion? Dock Library seems to no longer work and for such a basic usability issue it seems mad that I can just pick even from between a dark/light style for the dock.
Kind regards
Dave.

ok just found this
http://www.nothinggoes.com/transdockx/
and at least it solves the problem but it's a workaround.
Coming from linux I find this level of non-customisability quite irritating, especially when it's a basic function of the os.
Kind regards
Dave

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