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[Locked] Easier dock modification
Edward English 8 fabounet [Read]
12 April 2011 à 12:43

Edward, Saturday 02 April 2011 à 00:28


Subscription date : 01 April 2011
Messages : 7
I created a main dock thinking that it was the feature that I required. Now I have an empty main dock with no way to get rid of it.

Also all docks are modified at the same time. so you cannot customize how you want both docks to perform separately, There should be a customization menu that allows you to select your docks separately and modify them as separate entities.

The same goes for locking icons and docks. You can lock all your docks. I like how you can separate Launchers, applications, applets but there is practically no customization in regards to this. I have 2 applets, applications applet and a compiz applet. Both of which to me should be put in together with the applications. so right now I have 2 different places to launch applications... this is a little counter intuitive. If I uncheck separate the items then my running programs spawn willy nilly and not where I want them. I was going to do a few separate bars designed in different locations but as I said with the lack of locking functionality this was not possible. If it is possible it is very difficult to configure.

Also there are things in the simple configuration that are not located in the advanced configuration. so you are stuck switching back and forth regularily. Again makes configuration more complicated than required.

zapata, Saturday 02 April 2011 à 22:54


Subscription date : 20 December 2010
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+1

fabounet, Monday 04 April 2011 à 17:47


Subscription date : 30 November 2007
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well, you can have several docks, all of them sharing a global set of parameters.
then you can customize them a little bit (like setting a view or a background).

but many parameters are global by nature (like separating icons for instances).

about icons separation, I think it's much better to not separate them; in this case, taskbar icons will go after the latest launcher (in the main dock).

Edward, Monday 04 April 2011 à 21:24


Subscription date : 01 April 2011
Messages : 7
well I guess the usage of global parameters is the problem.

nochka85, Tuesday 05 April 2011 à 12:54


Subscription date : 29 November 2007
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+1

fabounet, Wednesday 06 April 2011 à 17:07


Subscription date : 30 November 2007
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but many parameters are global by nature.
I've made some parameters local to a dock, because it seemed interesting to be able to have different values for 2 docks (for instance the view).
which other parameters would you like to see local ?
I think that setting too many parameters for each dock would make things more complex.

nochka85, Sunday 10 April 2011 à 16:32


Subscription date : 29 November 2007
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which other parameters would you like to see local ?


All of them

I think that setting too many parameters for each dock would make things more complex.


I'm not sure -> If you create a new dock, it starts with the parameters of the main one ... And it would be great to be able to change every parameters. But for people who don't want to modify the "default", they simply don't. So why would it be more complex ?

jesuisbenjamin, Monday 11 April 2011 à 09:20


Subscription date : 28 October 2009
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I was thinking of this this morning actually: how i am missing the ability indeed to create two docks with their respective settings, by this i mean all of behaviour and appearance settings.

For instance i want one dock to perform as panel and one dock to perform as launcher-dock. The panel-dock i can give it a panel-view--which is great. But for instance i want my icons on the panel dock to be smaller than those of the launcher-dock. I may not want a panel-view for my panel-dock, but simply make it stretch to screen-width, which is now only globally possible. I may want my launcher-dock's background to be transparent and not the panel-dock's, also i may want the second dock's frame to look different. I may use the same view for both panels and yet want them to behave or look differently. I may want the ability of icons on one dock to zoom and others not.

In short most of the appearance and behaviour should be available for secondary docks and i'd go as far as to say sub-docks (although i havent't thought of all implications in the second case). There are few exceptions which are obviously fine globally: taskbar, system, desklets options.

Would it not be possible to use a class-settings for global dock settings and give each dock the possibility to change its inheritance as an instance? The main dock should also be an instance of that class too.

Cheers,
Benjamin

fabounet, Tuesday 12 April 2011 à 12:43


Subscription date : 30 November 2007
Messages : 17118
ok well, as you guys can guess, it will probably break a lot of things (including probably the config windows)
but that's a good idea, so let's add it to the 2.4 tasklist

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[Locked] Easier dock modification
Edward English 8 fabounet [Read]
12 April 2011 à 12:43


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