What about using the graphical part of another dock project and port the feature of gnome-do on it? What about awn? Cairo-dock? Why reinvent the wheel? Nicola
On Feb 22, 4:08 am, Jason Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I have decided hence forth to no longer contemplate making Docky a side > dockable Dock. I have come to this conclusion for several reasons and > did not reach it lightly. I admit I put a considerable amount of time > and effort into making this a posibility, but the more I develop Docky > the more I become convinced it will never be workable. > > Unless anyone can provide a very good mockup of how summon mode would > work on a side dock, I do not feel it is worthwhile for me to continue > developing based on the idea that this will some day be possible. > > My main concerns are as follows: > - Summon mode is ugly no matter how I mock it up > - There is LOTS of extra complexity for applets and painting services to > have to deal with a left/right orientation. Adapting between top/bottom > is relatively easy however. > - Most importantly, I now feel that this is having a very large negative > impact on the code of Docky. > > Therefor... I will be branching docky shortly after 0.8.1 and removing > all code dealing with side dock implementation and cleaning up any > interfaces designed with it in mind. After that merge we will close any > feature requests for side dock and pretty much recommend users wishing > for a side dock use the AWN rewrite. > > Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GNOME Do" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gnome-do?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
