Hello there,
I have started a project called gDock (I'll leave what it does to your imagination 
).
I have gDock running, creating the elements and all but I am having difficulties with the magnification. I need help from someone who knows how gdk_pixbuffs work. I am new to GTK/GDK programming.
Thank you for your time....
:woot: :woot:
That was the first thing in my mind
Second thing in my mind is in what enviroment would u like to write that dock 
And i hope that i could ran it thru gnome too
I am trying to make it as universal as I can, meaning that I am trying to stay away from gnome libraries but still using GTK which are the libraries gnome is based on.
The basic functionality of the dock is there, I have a config file where you define what applications to run and what icons represent the aplication, I am trying to get help with the magnification, because there is none right now 
Why not talk to the developer of that KDE Dock. His magnification (was) pretty good.
Could you post some screenshots? And hows the transparency gonna work?
I though of that, but KDE used QT as the GUI libraries so it wont help, I found an example that I am trying to follow
at the command line type : gtk-demo
doubleclick in Pixbufs
Transparency will work as in any other Xlib base app... it will be FAKE.
instead of an screenshots I will upload what I have right now. and some basic instructions... give me 5 to clean the code up and make a build
here it is.. you need a gDock.cfg file in the same directory. the cfg file should contain 2 entries per line.. full path is requiered for the icons
ie:
/usr/share/icons/Umicons/128x128/apps/aim.png gaim
as many lines as you want..
hardcoded size is 128x128, if your icon is smaller it will be displayed centered in a 128x128 container.
this is pre-pre-pre-pre-alpha, it was done in 3 hours, 2 hours and 30 minutes of those 3 hours were research 
it is useable but why would you use it?
mmmm how install the download file ? or, what is this file ?
contrasura it should work for you better that to anyone else.. it is developed in slackware
maybe is something with the attachment to the board? let me see if I can host it in my website.
I can host the file for you, email me: contrasutra@myrealbox.com
But im not in slack anymore, ArchLinux all the way.
Anyway, it executes, but then instantly dies, with no output.
Try compiling it with GCC.
It is compiled with gcc
I found a place that has a small introduction to pixbufs, I'll see if I can at least do magnification in 1 icon at the time and then I'll worry about the rest.
Contra, check your mail and see if you get it to compile.
Oh, when I "file"d it, it said it was done on some intel compiler.
Anyway, yeah, I got it to compile, with some errors. It works, but theres no magnification (is there suppose to be).
Heres the make output:
gcc gDock.c -o gDock `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0`
gDock.c: In function `Populate_dDock':
gDock.c:114: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
gDock.c:122: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
no magnification yet, still figuring out how to do it
well, it looks promising. Keep up the good work.
What license is it going to be under? Because you really shouldnt give out the source if you dont want it to be GPLd or something.
Not that I can do anything with C source. 
either GPL or Apache
How install or execute in Redhat 9 ??
do:
chmod +X [file]
then ./[file]
make sure you creat a gDock.cfg using the directions Telmo gave.
thx
sorry my parents are visiting from Spain so I haven't have much time to work on the dock, I got per icon magnification working altho it needs some tweaking. I changed the configuration so now you can specify the regular icon size and the maximized icon size.
As I said my parents are here so it will be at least 10 more days before I release a beta.
ok, I am back at coding.. I still need help, I have a couple of questions that hasn't been answer in the GTK mailing list. So if anyone has knowledge of GTK or know someone that does please let me know.
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