Mountain Lion Change dock to Dark?

I've been searching for this since 10.8 was released and yet to find any way to customize the dock background color.
I've always used a almost black dock BG in 10.6 and 10.7 and can't stand the light grey one in 10.8.
There must be "some" way to tweak these things?
It should be a few options in the system preference, either choose a light mid or dark bg, or even choose your own color.
OS X is a working environment which i use 8-14 hour/day and it's important to be able to adjust these things so you feel comfortable in your working space.
Please does anyone know how to tweak the Dock bg color?
Apple are you listening? give us some control over our own desktop.
Looking at Linux and Windows you can tweak anything to anything.
Also it would be nice to be able to turn off some of the social media integration.
I use Facebook and Twitter less and less and would appreciate those options to share everything turned off.
It's all about making my working space as clutterfree and pleasant.
Thanks

There is no official way to do this. It's not as easy as replacing image files like it was pre-Mountain Lion. The dock is rendered using code, specifically the CoreGraphics API in the Dock.app binary. I wanted a black dock, and so I disassembled the binary and patched it to render the way that I liked. This would be the only way to change it.

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