I actually started out lloking for something like that, but never found a suitable solution. The only thing I found that was even close a GNOME panel applet that was capable of holding docklets. Not an elegant solution at all, especially as I want to get RID of the panel. A standalone dock.app would be wonderful, especially if it were a single program that could allow multiple instances and a clip flag, so that I could, for example, run ">dock.app& dock.app -clip" and have exactly what I want. I'd still have the problem with getting rid of the very annoying panel, which apparently is impossible, although there is a workaround I found involving transparency....
I'd have to look at the relevant source code for the dock and app, but I doubt it would be horribly difficult to extract the code into a standalone. On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Truls Becken <[email protected]>wrote: > Jon "Top Hat" Jones wrote: > > > I want to have a GNUstep desktop environment (DE), with the wonderful > dock > > and clip (I love them boxes), but with support for compositing, such as > > Compiz Fusion. > > [snip] > > > I am perfectly willing to write the code myself, if someone will point me > in > > the right direction. > > I think a standalone Dock.app would be the best approach, so that you > could run any window manager you want and still have a nice, working > dock. It could add capabilities similar to those of wmaker's Clip > and/or the NeXTstep Fiend to make room for more than a single column. > > A common question on the mailing list is how to get rid of the app > icons in foreign environments. Currently, the answer is to write a > defaults value, but it would be much nicer if free floating icons did > not exist in the first place. They should only appear when there is a > dock running. Incidentally, this is how it works on Mac OS X, where > you can kill the Dock so that there is no trace left of app icons > until you launch Dock.app again. > > This will take some work, will require major changes to gnustep-gui, > and will probably break Window Maker, but I really think it is worth > it. Oh, and I do not mean a half baked solution like the GWorkspace > Dock. It is important to retain the possibility for applications to > add functionality to their app icons. > > -Truls > -- mu'o mi'e .aionys. .i.a'o.e'e ko klama le bende pe denpa bu -- mu'o mi'e .aionys. .i.a'o.e'e ko klama le bende pe denpa bu
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