[clue-talk] dock programs

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

These docks have launchers so you can add to them. To me, the dock is just a variation of a program menu. At least Cairo Dock is, because you can have subdocks. I see some advantages to docks, and it looks like no one is replacing GNOME's top dock, just the bottom one used to hold running programs. 

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From: "Brian Gibson" <bwg1974 at yahoo.com> 
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Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:09:15 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain 
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I've used AWN. I prefer launchers over docks. I also like window-shade (aka Quake-console) access to the terminal. See Guake for Gnome (slow dev cycle but still usable; 0.1 or 0.2 works with XFCE) or Kuake for KDE. 




From: "dennisjperkins at comcast.net" <dennisjperkins at comcast.net> 
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Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:57:38 PM 
Subject: [clue-talk] dock programs 


How many people in the group have tried a dock program? I have played with AWN (Avant Window Navigator), Cairo Doc, and Docky (part of GNOME Do). They are interesting because you can plug your frequently used programs into the dock for quicker access. Running programs not started by the dock are attached to the right side. 

They all mimic Apple's dock to some degree, but add their own enhancements. 

Docky is the most interesting, and the most frustrating because it didn't work as advertised and sometimes disappeared. It is really a variation of GNOME Do, which lets you type in the name of the document you are looking for, and after the document has been found, lets you choose an action to perform on the document, e.g., open the document in a word processor, start an email, go to a web page. 


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