It's not really about reinventing the wheel, cairo-dock and awn both don't have "summon mode" as far as I know. +1 for this from me. No point for a side dock if it will look ugly.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:21 AM, nicky.7 <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > -- jorrel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
