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655321

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best dock application?

Hi, I wanted to know which of all the dock applications out there its the best, I currently use the gnome-do docky theme but it lacks some features, and sometimes icons are very ugly.

I have heard about cairo-dock and Avant Window Navigator, but I guess there are a lot more. Well I dont know which app to install, so I wanted to hear some feedback from you guys to decide which one to install.

thanks in advance

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flamelab

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Re: best dock application?

Docky is standalone for some months as far as I know. Try docky-bzr from AUR.

ngoonee

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Re: best dock application?

This is Linux. Install them all, and see which one you like the best. I personally use cairo-dock, but am considering just dumping the 'dock' idea altogether.

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655321

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Re: best dock application?

Docky is standalone for some months as far as I know. Try docky-bzr from AUR.

That was one of the thing I was confused about, people talk about the gnome do docky theme and docky pretty much like the same app and I didnt know why. Now I get it, the theme was so successfull they decided to do a standalone app for it. I like docky a lot but dont know how to integrate it with gnome do, is there anyway to do it? For example, with gnome do dock I was able to search for anything and then hit the + sign, with docky I cant, is there a way to do this?

regards

PS: docky is in communityu repo, the docky-bzr in the AUR you mentioned, is it a newer version or a rework or something like that?

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flamelab

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Re: best dock application?

bzr, svn, git, hg, are the latest development versions.

Try it. It hasn't got to do with gnome-do anymore

Last edited by flamelab (2010-08-25 12:34:09)

hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

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Re: best dock application?

I like docky a lot but dont know how to integrate it with gnome do, is there anyway to do it?

There is no integration currently, but you can run gnome-do alongside docky.

hurleyef

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Re: best dock application?

Avant window navigator IMO.

655321

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Re: best dock application?

bzr, svn, git, hg, are the latest development versions.

Try it. It hasn't got to do with gnome-do anymore

Arent development versions buggy? or is this like the most up-to-date stable version?

cheers

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flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

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Re: best dock application?

bzr, svn, git, hg, are the latest development versions.

Try it. It hasn't got to do with gnome-do anymore

Arent development versions buggy? or is this like the most up-to-date stable version?

cheers

It depends. For example, docky from bazaar (docky-bzr) seems to be quite stable.

You try and see, you can never be sure.

Instability could be apparent though in bigger and more complex programs, WMs or DEs.