[Mattey]

MAN I CAN'T BELIEVE IT...

XWD2 is amazing, it has a great look ---BTW, I noticed that anti-aliasing is missing on borders--- ANYWAY, GREAT JOB BOBAH13!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS, I can see a great future for this, the best dock ever!!!

Thank YOU!!!

[btb42693]

Congrats Vladimir Very very very good. Really great work. We all owe you big time. Runs SMOOTH. Smooth as silk. Works and looks great. Better than all the other so called "docks" on the web... keep up the good work! Hopefully, we shall see some donations coming your way

THANK YOU! =)

This post has been edited by btb42693: 28 January 2010 - 04:26 AM

[iVICIS]

I'm just happy!!!! 11oneone Great speed, quality, etc. Excellent. Keep up the spirit

[Deavy]

Almost 3 000 downloads of XWindows Dock 2.0 beta in 5 days. Perfect results! Thanks for using it!

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[Vistapple]

Ok. I used it for 5 minutes then i decided to get rid of rk launcher (my previous dock). It is awesome!

it may not have minimise to dock, magnification or many plugins availiable yet, but i am seeing a great future for this dock.
Once the final release is done, and the above features are in, it will be the best there is. (That is, unless it already is the best!)

i cant wait until you implement the container as a part of the program! because matonga's stacks is very good, but yours is much more mac like. And that is what i am looking for.

Matonga's Stack docklets run fine, ObjectDock's calendar plugin is perfect and opening time is much better, I absolutely LOVE the right click menu, Nice simple easy to use interface, In previous XWD you had to click apply in preferences and then wait for it to reapear, I love how it now has auto update. Icon uality is excellent, Item customisation is superb and overall, i've got to say, this is the best dock i've ever used. And its only a beta!

keep up the good work

This post has been edited by Vistapple: 29 January 2010 - 09:11 AM

[yorkey]

h20ray, on 29 January 2010 - 09:55 AM, said:

um.. love this! really love this.
but, why no minimize to dock?

Ah come on, man. You know it hasn't been implemented it.

But awesome job! It's so smooth and runs brilliantly.

[koalacarlo79]

I've 2 requests for the final version:
1) stacks stack and more stacks;
2) show the bar when the mouse is on the border of the screen (and configurable waiting time).
Good work!!!

[kees1869]

koalacarlo79, on 29 January 2010 - 08:15 PM, said:

I've 2 requests for the final version:
1) stacks stack and more stacks;
2) show the bar when the mouse is on the border of the screen (and configurable waiting time).
Good work!!!

I would also like to see the dock pop up when the mouse is on the edge of the screen (and have it return to the background again when you move off it). It's the 1 of 2 things I miss when I moved from ObjectDock to XWindows Dock. The other thing is to have the start menu pop up when you press a dock icon, I hope someone makes this a plug-in or maybe Bobah could integrate this.

[Nikola]

kees1869, on 29 January 2010 - 08:43 PM, said:

I would also like to see the dock pop up when the mouse is on the edge of the screen (and have it return to the background again when you move off it). It's the 1 of 2 things I miss when I moved from ObjectDock to XWindows Dock. The other thing is to have the start menu pop up when you press a dock icon, I hope someone makes this a plug-in or maybe Bobah could integrate this.

Just palace openstartmenu http://www.chrisnsoft.com/download/ (it's on that page just scroll down) in dock and the start menu will pop up.

[AndrewYY]

Here's some quick and dirty AutoHotkey code to cause XWindows Dock to toggle visibility when you ctrl+alt+R (just like rocketdock)

#NoTrayIcon
GroupAdd, XWDWins, XWindows Dock
return

^!r::
    WinGet, visible, Count, XWindows Dock
    if visible = 0
        WinShow, ahk_group XWDWins
    else
        WinHide, ahk_group XWDWins
return

of course, an official solution with nice animation, etc would be great, but this works as a temporary workaround if you need to run something fullscreen or what have you.

[Vistapple]

Just need magnification and minimise to dock and it will be enough! oh yes, and you are making your own stacks built in aren't you, even better! Once it gets all the features 5.6 had, it will be the best dock there is! (excluding the mac dock!)

[BOBAH13]

I've got one thing to tell you. As soon as we all will use Vista, Seven (I think all use with Aero (Composition technology)), and Composition is a future of Windows systems, I think to use cool features (like minimization, "one" (I've already made it) and so on) and make it faster, smoother, cooler at the end, we should use Composition. But it means, that on XP it won't work, and won't work on Vista and Seven if you disable Composition.

I think it's not a problem, and it's the best way to coding the dock

Thanks. Vlad.

[Vistapple]

i've noticed that when i've got a full screen program open if i move my mouse near the botton the whole thing messes up. When i close XWD it doesn't happen. I think it is that it is taking focus or something. Maybe make an option like in RK Launcher to "never take focus"

and i think that if you have xp upgrade to 7. i mean, xp is so outdated you cant even buy it anymore.

This post has been edited by Vistapple: 30 January 2010 - 08:42 AM

[Mattey]

BOBAH13, on 30 January 2010 - 06:55 AM, said:

I've got one thing to tell you. As soon as we all will use Vista, Seven (I think all use with Aero (Composition technology)), and Composition is a future of Windows systems, I think to use cool features (like minimization, "one" (I've already made it) and so on) and make it faster, smoother, cooler at the end, we should use Composition. But it means, that on XP it won't work, and won't work on Vista and Seven if you disable Composition.

I think it's not a problem, and it's the best way to coding the dock

Thanks. Vlad.

You're right!
Nowadays OS, and almost every software is requiring more and more power computers, I mean, If you cannot run Win7 Ultimate with all its features on your computer, that means you'll have to upgrade you're hardware someday...

I know, not everybody can afford to have this kind of machines, but, XWD's development must continue, and, if somebody is still using Xp, man... They'll have tu upgrade anyways...

Great idea, take advantag of Windows features... BTW I think, after the final release... Maybe, just maybe, you could try to integrate XWD into shell?

BOBAH13. You're doing a great job. CONGRATULATIONS!

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[Vistapple]

Just a few recomendations for the final release.


1: For minimisation (when you get around to it) possibly slow down the animation by holding shift (im not sure if it is actually shift. Just whatever button it is on a mac)

2: Change the right click menu form "Show in explorer" to "show in finder" (just to keep with the mac theme) or, maybe even have a customisable option like in stacks.

3: When windows minimise to dock make sure they are minimised to the second from the right (like on a mac it goes between the downloads stack and the recycle bin)

4: If you can, make fan stacks open more like on a mac. Instead of just suddenly appearing have the document that is displayed sort of fly up. Im not sure how to describe it, just watch it and you will know what i mean

5: Possibly when right click on a stack, make it say "show as" then eigther folder or stack, depending on your current setting, If it is a folder, just have an icon, and if it is a stack, it will be the stack of documents inside.


Remember, these are just recommendations, and if there are some you cant do, we dont mind. We are getting this for free and i would like to see anyone who complains do better.


i just hope that when i get my free laptop from school that it doesn't have xp on it!

This post has been edited by Vistapple: 01 February 2010 - 05:11 AM

[BOBAH13]

1. I know I'm doing it everywhere
2. No, I won't make it. Cause we use Windows, and it has not Finder.exe. Anyway, in future you will be able to change the string in language file
3. Will see, not sure that it's possible
4/5 not sure that I understand.

Anyway.. now I'm working and no have a lot of time to spend on the XWD. Also, we are testing what we have for now, then fix bugs and improve some features, then, hope, will publish it.
So, will see.

[yorkey]

In my opinion, XWD is nearly perfect as it is now. Besides stacks, the dock is exactly what I want and need. Nothing fancy, but it looks great and works effortlessly and smoothly.

Thanks BOBAH13! You're doing a great job.

[aka120]

BOBAH13, on 01 February 2010 - 07:31 AM, said:

3. Will see, not sure that it's possible

Not to compare, I just wanted to add here that RK Launcher does have this ability...
Well, this project specifically has implemented it....
http://windowsedge.c...RKLauncher.html

I dunno if that helps any, but i see its possible to do on the windows platform, but totally unsure if its possible due to the language the dock is written in or the docks core.

[Vistapple]

Yes, I used RK until you released XWD 2.0.0 and yes it is actually customisable, you in the options thing you can set where you want windows to minimise to.
but if it isnt possible with the dock coding, thats ok.

and

Quote

4/5 not sure that I understand

well when you right click on a stack in OS X it will say "show as stack/folder" And if you set it to a stack, the stack icon is like an actual stack of the stuff inside the stack. But, if you set it to Folder, it will just be one icon (you can change it to whatever)
Depending on what it is currently set to, changes what it will say

eg: if it is set as a stack it will say "set as folder" and if it is set as a folder, it will say "set as stack"


and as for number 4, its kind of hard to describe but if you watch a fan stack opened you will see. Its just a cool little animation


And if there are any features you cant get in, It will still be one of the best docks there are


oh and i only just realised that it has window reflections. i thought it just reflected the wallpaper but its open windows to! great work

This post has been edited by Vistapple: 02 February 2010 - 06:24 AM

[Manyvox]

first I must say that the dock looks really cool and much more stable
i thought the fact that icons didn't magnify was a bug on seven but no it seems that its because its the beta release
the preferences are simpler however i'd like to set the 5.6 option "show dock on mouse over"
and it be cool if we could still edit icons in the future stacks
hope the genie effect will still be there !

thx a lot guys this is so cooooool