Changing stack applications icon in the dock

Dear readers,
Do anyone now how to change the aperence of the application's stack in the dock. The stacks automaticly vieuw the contents of the folder. but i dont like that because you cant see clearly if it is the applications folder or the download folder.
greetings
Valentijn

do you have an advanced copy of 10.5.2? the options you describe are not currently available but are reportedly present in 10.5.2.
back to the original poster's question. You can wait a few days till 10.5.2 comes out and then you'll be able to do what Kappy says. If you don't want to wait you can put an image (or an icon) file in the folder used for your stack and rename it so that it comes first alphabetically. This way your stack will (mostly) look like that image.

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