Should I Continue Development?

Hi everyone,

With no doubt the thought of stopping docklet development has crossed my mind million times. With the recent event of M. Yamaguchi's Y'z Dock development status I have been thinking about my position in this regard.

M. Yamaguchi clearly states Please NEVER re-distribute "Y'z Dock", but nothing about not using it for personal use. In addition, comments regarding docklets and the SDK was not mentioned (on the recent, update yz.designtechnika.com site), but again, they are all integrated together making the "Y'z Dock".

My recent argument (with myself) concludes in stopping docklet development after finishing Weather v0.5 & Tasks v0.2. Ofcourse, this changed this morning, and will change sometime today and so on...

I would like to hear from the people who use the docklets and provide a non-biased, critical and honest view of the situation. I think, it's because of you, the community, that made me start this wonderful and exciting journey (development) and it is only you, now, that will decide when I should stop.

Currently my thoughts in regards to continue: 60% Yes, 40% No.

Thanks everyone for your time.

#38708

Well, albeik, to be honest, with the upcoming plugin feature in OD, I think you should continue the dev for the time being and then port them to OD.

And, if Tasks is neat, maybe people will continue to use Y'z even if the dev is stopped

#38710

albeik I say yes, I prefer the YZdock over the OD due to all the nice docklets that you and others develop for the YZ dock. Please keep it alive.! (Y)

#38711

KEEP IT ALIVE!!!

If you stop i'll kill you

I myself want to start developing docklets (when i'll defend my IT engeener title, i hope it'll be soon) and where i'll host them when you stop and close your page

CONTINUE!!!

Take care

GAngel

#38714

Switch over to Object Dock you talented b@stard!!!

#38715

I agree with H4rM. I would love if you continued with docklets for YzDock, and maybe make the transition, if possible, to the OD docklets, if and when they ever impliment it. Your docklets rock and I would love to see the continued development of them.

Thanks for all your hard work !!!

FatAxl :own:

#38725

Here's a ditto for your continued development of docklets for Y'z Dock and a possible subsequent move to Object Dock docklet development. Your docklets rock!!

Thank you for all the hard work thus far - I look forward to seeing what you come up with in the future!

#38729

i am currently a yzdock user and love your creations .... but i think that od is the future in docks for xp... if it is possible to convert them to od.. then "do it do it do it do it do it" and when od has the ability to add seps.. then im sure everyone will make the jump

#38734

continue!!! :order:

#38738

Should I Continue Development?

Sure... Why not?

#38741

YES!!!

You are awesome at making docklets!!

Since Mr. Y isn't developing Y's dock anymore, now it's completely up to the docklet makers to keep it alive! I love y's dock, and refuse to use any other dock (wow, sounding like one of those mac loyalists... lol)

Please continue!!

#38744

YES! You should continue. Y'z Dock's popularity has soared and I honeslty believe you are partially responsible for that, along with the great updates by Mr. Yamaguchi himself. I myself would not have switched over to Y'z Dock if it had not been for your docklets.

I also think Mr. Yamaguchi would contact you through his translator if he was against you continuing.

Currently ObjectDock doesn't officially support Docklets, right? And I doubt Stardock will ever include this feature like this because it would be too much like Y'z Dock and that could spell trouble for Stardock. Maybe. Maybe not. We shall see.

#38749

Yes please comtinue I am loyal to Yz Apps and will continue unless Y himself tells me not to use it I will not distribute it but I will not give it up and that is in a big part to you and the docklets you have and I hope continue developing till you think you have finished what you started do it as long as you enjoy doing it Albeik

#38753

Originally posted by imtoomuch@Jul 7 2003, 06:36 PM

YES! You should continue.  Y'z Dock's popularity has soared and I honeslty believe you are partially responsible for that, along with the great updates by Mr. Yamaguchi himself.  I myself would not have switched over to Y'z Dock if it had not been for your docklets.

I also think Mr. Yamaguchi would contact you through his translator if he was against you continuing.

Currently ObjectDock doesn't officially support Docklets, right?  And I doubt Stardock will ever include this feature like this because it would be too much like Y'z Dock and that could spell trouble for Stardock. Maybe.  Maybe not.  We shall see.

Seeing as how Yz Dock is now abandonware, how could docklets spell trouble for Stardock?

They are both freeware apps, and as I seem to remember, nowhere has Yamaguchi stated the dock feature of Yz Dock was trademarked, copyrighted or whatever.

The entire point of these dock developers is to bring people the best quality Dock for WinXP. I doubt that they would start suing each other over a freeware app. Thats just silly.

#38754

As I stated in another forum on the same topic:

For me YzDock is the ONLY dock.

Regardless of whether or not its development is ongoing.

It's a fully functioning entity, even in its present form.

I think that with your continued (much appreciated effort), you'll continue to add increased functionality to what has become for many; a mainstay in their daily computing productivity and enjoyment.

A resounding YES! to continuing.

Cheers

P.S.

A) There's simply no qualified reason to stop development.

Its your calling.

#38815

Originally posted by deadzombie+Jul 7 2003, 07:06 PM-->

QUOTE(deadzombie @ Jul 7 2003, 07:06 PM)

#38869

Thanks everyone for your comments and suggestions.

I will continue development... actually I am... make sure to check the Tasks Docklet Development thread for an update!

Thank you guys for everything... my status at this point is 98% to conitnue...

#38878

sure you do albeik | if you enjoy doing so, keep it on. I, for one, really appreciate all your hard work and the high rate of updates and development of diffrerent tasks.

respect.

aniba!

#38882

Originally posted by albeik@Jul 8 2003, 05:48 AM

I will continue development...

hey albeik, any plans to update iCal?

#39076

albeik, don't let Apple win! you should continue!

:own:

#39083

Hey Albeik, go on with developing (Y) Your doing a great job about this docklets. It's really sad that Yz stop dev. I've read about ObjectDock maybe has in a later version docklet support and wantto changed develope for this! On this day i changed for OB too. Now my fav. Dock is Y'z.

#39089

Yes, it is definately a shame that the support has ended...I'm hoping it isn't forever. It'd be great if the source code was released...

Anyways...my vote is definately to continue, albeik. Y'z is completely operational and I am yet to find any bugs in it...your docklets complete this excellent program.

#39131

go for it man...docklets are a-ok by me.

#39139

Yz Docklets.com it wasnt there this morning hope its just a server problem hate to see it end this way

#39217

@Ghostwalker: hmm... I didn't have any server problems this morning. interesting.. it looks fine. Hope it was a few seconds thing!

#39263