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#1 2009-03-20 21:41:29

thom_raindog
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Kde Dock

Howdie,

what dock application can you people recommend for KDE4? I am willing to look at any option you mention smile

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#2 2009-03-20 21:53:11

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Re: Kde Dock

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I used KoolDock a long long time ago...do not know of its status anymore.

There is also KibaDock. A lightweight solution would be wbar.

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#3 2009-03-20 22:16:12

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Re: Kde Dock

there is the fancytask plasmoid
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.ph … tent=99737

Its in aur too

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#4 2009-03-20 22:31:45

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Re: Kde Dock

STasks are similar to dock too. Especially with Sabre Tiger plasma theme:

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#5 2009-03-21 06:22:47

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Re: Kde Dock

I tried Kooldock last night right through pacman. Had horrible grafical glitches. Kibadock and AWN appear to be very gnome-related, not sure that will work well. Wbar out of the arch repos does nothing when it starts up.
And Fancytask and Stasks are all rather.. well... beta-ish? smile
I might give one of those a try later on anyway.

Thank you folks already for all the input.

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#6 2009-03-21 16:39:17

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Re: Kde Dock

Cairo-dock is quite good and desktop-agnostic. That being said, their new 2.0 beta has some issues with KDE and the configuration window.

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#7 2009-03-21 16:44:56

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Re: Kde Dock

I use Stasks instead of an normal task bar widget and they are really good. More or less they do everything like the normal task manager.
So you resize your lower panel so it occupies the middle of your screen use a Sabre Tiger theme and Stasks and you'll have a dock more or less.


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#8 2009-03-22 05:58:09

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Re: Kde Dock

Cairo-Dock does not seem to be in the regular repositories...
I did install stasks, so far I am still missing the most important thing that makes me want to not use the kde4 taskbar anyway: I cant change the look/design/layout according to my whishes.
I suppose thats where the sabre tiger skin comes into play, but how in the world do I use that? I feel dumb....

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#9 2009-03-22 06:10:47

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Re: Kde Dock

thom_raindog wrote:

Cairo-Dock does not seem to be in the regular repositories...

Gotta love the AUR smile

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#10 2009-03-22 06:48:50

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Re: Kde Dock

Yeah, only now experimenting with that.
Heres the result:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=68100

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#11 2009-04-20 20:47:37

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Re: Kde Dock

I don't get the fancytasks plasmoid - how can it function as a dock? I must be missing somefink. Same goes for STask...

Cairo-dock installed alright but even after a kbuildsycoca && kbuildsycoca4 it hasn't shown up anywhere??? Can't even tab it on the command line... Mind you, it is late and I am tired roll


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#12 2009-04-20 21:43:15

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Re: Kde Dock

Never tried it but might be worth giving this a go Peachy Dock

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#13 2009-04-20 22:21:43

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Re: Kde Dock

I think cairo-dock is the best...

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#14 2009-04-21 05:53:17

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Re: Kde Dock

Peachydock finally installed on my 64 bit but functionality is similar to fancytasks and STask, i.e. no dock sad

Giving cairo-dock another whirl...

Aarrghh! I installed:

toad@deskarch 621\6 ~ > yaourt -S cairo-dock cairo-dock-plugins cairo-dock-themes

But I still can't find cairo-dock - can't tab into it on the cli to get it started??? Feeling very dumb indeed and in need of a push in the right direction...

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#15 2009-04-21 06:25:21

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Re: Kde Dock

Okay, I found the reason why it wouldn't work on my system:

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:: cairo-wglitz: conflicts with cairo
==> WARNING: Your package is saved in /tmp/yaourt-tmp-toad/cairo-wglitz-1.8.6-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
cp: overwrite `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-toad/cairo-wglitz-1.8.6-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz'? y
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toad@deskarch 622\8 ~ > yaourt -Rns cairo
Password:
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: ghostscript: requires cairo>=1.8.6
:: pango: requires cairo>=1.8.6
:: poppler: requires cairo>=1.8.6
:: pycairo: requires cairo>=1.8.6

toad@deskarch 623\9 ~ > yaourt -Rns cairo ghostscript pango poppler pycairo
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: foomatic-filters: requires ghostscript
:: gtk2: requires pango>=1.24.0-2
:: hplip: requires ghostscript
:: imagemagick: requires ghostscript
:: libspectre: requires ghostscript
:: poppler-qt: requires poppler>=0.10.6
:: pygtk: requires pycairo>=1.6.4
:: wesnoth: requires pango

So what now? Does that mean cairo-dock is beyond me?

EDIT:

Okay, this solved it: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=68100

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