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- livevil, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26No, thats not Apple's OSX. It's Open Source and it progresses.
- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19> And keeping that in mind Gnome and XFCE should really consider adding AWN to their project.
No, that's bloat, complexity, and a {Bed Idea}^TM. Modularity, choice and separation are our friends. apt-get install awn (or yum) if the OS X/OpenStep look is your thing. - MavRevMatt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15AWN is awesome.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+16This is awesome. With with AMD Intel and NVidia co-operating compositing will be possible with most of the new installations.
And keeping that in mind Gnome and XFCE should really consider adding AWN to their project. - tolbs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10I'm dual booting Ubuntu Feisty and OSX 10.4.9, and I can tell you that AWN is making leaps and bounds. It's not quite perfect yet, but already I like it more the Mac OS X's dock with exception to a few quirks (little buggy, requires beryl or compiz, doesn't stack all instances of an app (ie 3 firefox windows into one icon, among others). You can customize the living heck out of it, changing the dock background to have that tilted glass effect, changing the dock background color, etc. I also appreciate that it already has a Stack feature, that i'm sure they will build upon. Big thumbs up to this project, it should bring many one step away from OS X and one step closer to Ubuntu Linux.
- notclaude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Put simply, it's a dock (like Mac's) for linux.
- mvent2, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11Plus Apple are trigger-happy with patents ;)
- allyant, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Anyone got a video of the "3D turn" effect?
- ninja0, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8and... WHERE CAN I GET THIS UPDATE?!
- wiihuck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6anyone have a How To: for installing applets like the volume control one?
thanks. - Kratos76, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5since no one else will link to it:
https://launchpad.net/awn
found from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant_Window_Navigato ... - TheRemoteViewer, on 10/10/2007, -8/+12I have no idea what AWN is and still don't know after reading the link, though it appears it has something to do with Linux/Ubuntu.
- neubourne, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5looks like I'm gonna be playing with a *nix shortly
- MavRevMatt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I'd rather not have it be included by default, unless they want to replace gnome-panel with it.
- MavRevMatt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I was actually wondering that, I haven't seen it show up in the repo that has bzr yet...
- wiihuck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4that double post was all digg. i had nothing to do with it.
- midtown, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Alright, to get this:
bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~awn-effects/awn/libaw ... avant-window-navigator
cd avant-window-navigator
./autogen.sh && make && sudo make install
Then run avant-window-navigator, right click on the side, go to Preferences and change the icon effect. - mmcwhorter, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Hmmm... If you really waned to know what it is, maybe google it. The link was not to an article introducing AWN, but just some new features that have been added to it.
I try not to boast about everything I DON'T know in the comments section. - ramvi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant_Window_Navigato ...
- midtown, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2This is a video of the initial proof-of-concept, not the effect running in AWN. It runs much smoother and faster in AWN.
This is a better video: http://www.bruges-guides.com/dolfje/awn-turn-effec ... - skyshard, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4o_o
i HATE those horizontal scrollable panes. - MavRevMatt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Damn it's like YouTube...
- arghhhhhh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1He just posted the video:
http://grumpymole.blogspot.com/2007/09/awn-3d-turn ... - antdude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It doesn't work for me.
- arghhhhhh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1URL got cut off...
grumpymole.blogspot.com/2007/09/awn-3d-turn-icon-effect-video.html - wiihuck, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3anyone have a How To: for installing applets like the volume control one?
thanks. - Hoov, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Same. I like AWN but the last time I tried it the animations were so not fluid that it felt half-assed.
- wiihuck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Copy/Pasted, restarted awn, and i do not see an "icon effect" preference anywhere. any ideas?
- ZeroDivide, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Here is a video showing off the new effect.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2462681761 ... - Vinvin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1So how come you clicked this article? Do you always read news articles about stuff you've never heard of?
Clearly, this post was meant for people already interested in AWN (because it assumes you know what it is, if you don't, most people don't click the link) and that wanted to find out about the newest updates. Having to explain what it is on each update is a boring and repetative task that could be solved just as well by the user Googling. - cornflakepirate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's up to the AWN developers to join GNOME/XFCE, not the other way around.
- geoken, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The article was called "AWN Updates" not "Everything you want to know about AWN".
- pingpongboss, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1that's one hell of a slow demo
- pingpongboss, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1it's in the Gutsy http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42 repo.
- geoken, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Why would you expect to know what AWN is after reading a link to a blog titled "AWN Updates"?
- bangmalley, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1"As you mouse over the icons they spin around their vertical axis."
cool, hope they implement horizontal too - TexanPsycho, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1For Windows users, try RKLauncher. It doesn't look as good but it's pretty cool.
- mydave, on 08/01/2008, -0/+0oh it is awesome with my AMD.
http://search.ashtech.info/AWN%20Updates%20%203D%2 ... - cmost, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I have to admit, AWN is very nice. I've been using it for several months on my Linux Mint desktop. I tinkered with Kiba dock last year but development on that just became chaotic and then it seemed to stop altogether. The only other OSX-like dock I could find was KXdocker, but, it didn't run that well in Gnome. The Gnome desktop has seriously needed something like this and AWN is the answer. In my opinion, Gnome offers the most Mac-like experience (when compared to KDE.) I hope this project continues. It certainly looks promising.
- Megaqwerty22, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1I don't know which repositories have it, or where you can find a video online. So, I took the trouble to make a package of it from bzr, and I have taken a video of it as well. You can get the packages along with the video from: http://tinyurl.com/2y5lbm ... (It's just a little over 1MB)
Enjoy! - ninja0, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2http://www.zippyvideos.com/6136082897241046/coinsp ...
- Johnnell, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1http://grumpymole.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8080/2007/ ...
- mrmorris, on 10/10/2007, -7/+5And just what is AWN? Rather than pasting some random snippet, perhaps a quick recap to set things into context might be a good idea instead.
- specialK16, on 10/10/2007, -7/+4Meh, it's still Kiba-Dock for me.
- antitab, on 10/10/2007, -7/+4Erm... until you have a real, three-dimensional icon format, this effect is going to be pretty extremely useless and garish. Seriously, guys. Repeating the pixels a few times = "3D effect"?
- Johnnell, on 10/10/2007, -6/+2mirror (with working image) - http://grumpymole.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8080/2007/ ...
- aldenhg, on 10/10/2007, -8/+3I wish that the main menu in AWN was more like OSX's finder with horizontal scrollable panes. I still like it a lot, though.
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