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Dock preference?

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Monday, March 8th 2004, 11:25pm

Dock preference?

I have been using linux with kde for a month or so now and I have come across quite a few Dock programs that imitate the Mac OS X style dock. I am currently using KSmoothDock, but only for the stability and the fact that it is a standalone program; I don't have to run Karamba or SuperKaramba also. I am although somewhat unhappy with it, especially the part about how it hasn't been updated in several months.

I have tried out these docks, KXDocker 0.7, KlearDock, and a few others that were for SuperKaramba but I can't remember their names. I was just wanting some advice on which docks were everyone elses personal favorites. There are so many horrible ones out there I can't pick through them all.
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Tuesday, March 9th 2004, 8:47am

My favourite is Ksmoothdock

The only problem that I find with it is that the transparency doesn't work so well, it doesnt have a system tray and the config is a little unwielding.

Other than that i enjoy it.

I have tried KXDocker, and i found it very unstable and i didn't like it too much (it didnt have a taskbar...)
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Tuesday, March 9th 2004, 12:49pm

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I have tried KXDocker, and i found it very unstable and i didn't like it too much (it didnt have a taskbar...)


I agree with that, KXDocker is suppose to have a taskbar and a clock now but it still doesn't work right. Plus there is no right click, and it crashes when you try ;) I'm using KSmoothDock also, no big issue with it, just limited customization available plus it's not being updated. I want to learn C++ just so I can update this thing to my needs.
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Thursday, March 11th 2004, 4:15am

Kleardock/KSmoothdock

My understanding is that Kleardock is taking off where Ksmoothdock left off...due to it not being maintained...


http://kleardock.sourceforge.net/

"In june 2003 A project named KSmoothDock, maintained by Viet Dung appeared on kde-look. It's aim was to bring a more appealing dock to KDE. After a few monthes the project promptly died (or at least no one could contact the developper), and a fork was made, KlearDock
(Update 03/01/2004: I've just recieved a response to my e-mail to Viet Dung, and since he won't be able to take care of KSmoothDock for the next few months, KlearDock will be the maintained branch for the time being. Fingers crossed he'll come on board to join us when he returns)"

I really like it.

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Saturday, March 27th 2004, 5:40pm

I could not install kleardock. At the time of installation, I wrote ln -s
'whichkleardock'., it said me that no .../usr/bin ..../usr..

What can I do?
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Sunday, March 28th 2004, 10:11am

I installed it but the former kicker is still being.
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Sunday, March 28th 2004, 10:48am

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I installed it but the former kicker is still being.

See http://kde.ground.cz/tiki-index.php?page=Secret+Config+Settings

Section "Getting rid of the panel"

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Sunday, March 28th 2004, 8:00pm

there is also the slicker project, which pretends to build a real cool kicker replacement, but there aren't many files released yet. but time will tell...

Kxdocker works fine for me, the guy working on it is doing very well, I think when it hits stable/1.0 release, it'll be very nice.
but I whould prefere some more integration in the kicker itself. maybe the kicker can be enhanced, instead of all these projects being there...
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