@GrahamPerrin Your answer apple.stackexchange.com/a/93148 doesn't really answer the question, is this intentional?

@patrix If the question is about the placement (I believe so), my answer is "probably impossible" with Lion.

It's not intended to be a popular answer (the bounty expresses constant annoyance with Lion) but it's realistic ;-)

I agree on it most probably being unsolvable

the question asks for "Does anyone have clues on how, if at all, this could be fixed" though

@patrix I get strange responses to strings with 12E55

at the end the message is "it works different with each OS X version, just learn to accept it" but maybe you can add something like that at the beginning

Extraordinarily narrow outputs

@patrix I know what you mean but for an OS that's more than two years old (?) the word learn might rub people up the wrong way

@patrix or anyone: if you have 10.8.3 or less (not 10.8.4) what sort of output do you get from the following command?

strings /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock

True (and honestly I'm a bit surprised by the bounty at all), but with the current answer you risk a "not an answer" flag

Can't run the strings command right now (I'm in the office without Macs)

@patrix np

pastebin.com/qc1bSHJR suspiciously narrow output

Why is this question protected? It doesn't have any answers and a new user with a solution can not post it. Is this done automatically?

@BartArondson Thanks for pointing this out (and feel free to use the "flag" option to get the message directly to the moderators).

This question has three "me too" non-answers which have been deleted already. The system auto-protects questions automatically in such cases. I've removed the protection again, let's see what happens.

@GrahamPerrin Looks similar to your pastebin on 10.8.3