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Feature request: Leopard stylle dock for KDE 4
by Max on Sunday 13/Jan/2008, @14:13

I would like to request:
An Apple OS-X Leopard style dock that's compatible with KDE 4/Plasma.

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Re: Feature request: Leopard stylle dock for KDE 4
by Wheely on Sunday 13/Jan/2008, @22:49

Nearly all mac users, myself included, don't particularly like the OSX Leopard dock. Nearly all turn off the icon zooming and many apply a hack that makes it 2D and closer to kicker.

It is representative of most flashy desktop effects i.e. they are great for impressing people who haven't seen them before but generally get in the way when you're actually trying to work.

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Re: Feature request: Leopard stylle dock for KDE 4
by Max on Sunday 13/Jan/2008, @23:51

Could be it. I never owned a Mac. So there is the novelty factor.
Still want to try it at least for a little bit. :-)

I installed a Mac like dock for Win XP (moved the taskbar to the top and autohide'd it.) It's flat, doesn't have the 3d effect, but does have the effect where the icons get big when hovering over them. I like it so far, but I do miss the ability of seeing several firefox windows at once. The doc just lets me know I have firefox running, not how many windows. (so the regular taskbar is still helpful)

I'd like to play with it under KDE 4, at least for a little while :-p

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Re: Feature request: Leopard stylle dock for KDE 4
by Phil on Monday 14/Jan/2008, @10:06

I know several Mac users (was one myself at previous job) and I've never seen any Mac user do any such thing to their dock, and all I asked like the new Leopard style (as do I). I'd love to see Kickoff have the ability to be configured as the OS X dock (3D, reflective, bouncing icons).

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Re: Feature request: Leopard stylle dock for KDE 4
by Wheely on Monday 14/Jan/2008, @10:24

Try trawling the apple forums. The majority prefer the old Tiger dock. Personally I quite like reflective icons and the bounce is a good way to show that the application is showing an alert. However, the icon zooming is awful because it really starts getting in the way if your application needs to get mouse events anywhere near the dock e.g for resizing. It would be possible to do a better implementation I guess at the expense of extra mouse clicks to get the work done. However, this would just be another candidate for the new trend of glitz over funtion.

If, it is an option however, why not.

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Re: Feature request: Leopard stylle dock for KDE 4
by Phil on Monday 14/Jan/2008, @12:03

Yeah I don't like the HUGE zoom but zooming from (for example) 32 to 48 pixels is nice.

There was a kde-app called KSmoothDock which did exactly the same thing, it broke from 3.4x to 3.50 (I think, going back a couple of years now) and the author never updated it, which was a shame because it looked really good.

I don't have time to trawl the Apple forums, too busy trolling KDE :-)

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Re: Feature request: Leopard stylle dock for KDE 4
by Bobby on Monday 14/Jan/2008, @13:19

"I'd love to see Kickoff have the ability to be configured as the OS X dock (3D, reflective, bouncing icons)"

I would love that too. I have said many times that Kickoff is missing eye-candies apart from that I like it very much.

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Re: Feature request: Leopard stylle dock for KDE 4
by Max on Monday 14/Jan/2008, @21:46

I agree.. :)

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Re: Feature request: Leopard stylle dock for KDE 4
by Erunno on Tuesday 15/Jan/2008, @00:44

Yes, because eye candy is really the most important aspect one has to consider when designing a frequently used application launcher :-/

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Re: Feature request: Leopard stylle dock for KDE 4
by T. J. Brumfield on Monday 14/Jan/2008, @08:42

http://xqde.xiaprojects.com/

It is a work in progress, but it is QT 4 based I do believe. It is from the author of KXDocker, but I believe he said the new dock (XQDE) is supposed to be faster with far less code yet provide more features.

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Re: Feature request: Leopard stylle dock for KDE 4
by Max on Monday 14/Jan/2008, @21:47

Really? That would be awesome..

It would add some color to the KDE 4.0 bar.. :D

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Re: Feature request: Leopard stylle dock for KDE 4
by Luis on Monday 14/Jan/2008, @22:40

A Plasmoid dock will be a lot better, don't you think? ;)

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write the plasmoid
by Ian Monroe on Monday 14/Jan/2008, @13:14

Someone just had to write a plasmoid to do it.

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Re: write the plasmoid
by Max on Wednesday 16/Jan/2008, @13:03

Did they do it already?

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