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Hello folks.

To get the ball rolling I'd like to tell you that I am a user of both Linux (Granular), Windows and Mac Machines. And probably like most of you, I have experimented with a wide variety of Distros and graphical effects.

While I initially felt more comfortable with Gnome and XFCE, I have become more adept with KDE as a windowing system. It has become my favourite simply because of its immense flexibility and ultimate usability.

That said, there is one thing that suprises me. (Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong on the following) but as I play with KDE taskbar, I wonder why it is that no-one has thought to add a "Bouncing" Icon function to the taskbar set up ?

Sure, there are plenty of OS-X dock imitators like Koolbar, but they are seperate utilities.

I appreciate that it is only an "eyecandy" effect, but incorporating it into the major KDE taskbar seems to me, to make more sense than having KDE users install various "Dock" styled utilities that often don't intergrate well with the main KDE panel.

That's why I wonder if bouncing / enlarging 'Genie' effects could be added to the already highly adaptable KDE set up ?

As by way of illustration, here is a snapshot of my Granular-Linux set up.

From my perspective, the KDE taskbar already looks 'OS-X Dockish' in its own way; adding bouncing / magnifying Icons to that KDE bar would seem to be a logical extension.

I don't know if anyone else thinks it a useful idea, but I do hope whoever the KDE creators are, that they might at least consider it for KDE 4.

Thanks for reading.

Aqualinux