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- midtown, on 01/29/2009, -2/+58Great work everyone involved! If you want to check it out on Ubuntu, just add the PPA: https://launchpad.net/%7Edo-core/+archive/ppa, and install/update gnome-do and gnome-do-plugins.
- srg13, on 01/30/2009, -1/+48Wow, that dock looks really cool... Looks a lot better than AWN and Cairo Dock at least.
- i4ybrid, on 01/30/2009, -2/+47I'm very excited to test this out later tonight!
Friday night, I'll be installing stuff in Linux...and I'm excited to do it. I am such a loser. - benzete, on 01/30/2009, -5/+43It's pretty much OSX dock + Quicksilver. As a user of Quicksilver (and OSX) I'd say this is a great addition to Linux desktop
- davebsd, on 01/30/2009, -1/+37You just don't get it... We (and I mean *you* and I) own GNOME Do. No company owns it. It's Free. We have the source code, and can do cool things with it and express new ideas. Maybe you haven't looked carefully enough, but Docky does have new ideas in it. Yes, Apple's Dock is slick but (1) it's proprietary, (2) it doesn't run on Linux, (3) it can't search your filesystem or play music or tweet or do the million and one other things that Docky can do. Now, I'm an Apple shareholder, but I have to warn you -- when you side with a proprietary solution, you are acting against your own interest (unless of course your livelihood is directly tied to Mac OS X sales).
Give Freedom a chance, InorganicMatter. - inactive, on 01/30/2009, -5/+31You ***** it more than just a dock you morons.
Read the page for once. - skyshock1, on 01/30/2009, -1/+27No worries, you're among friends here. :)
- davebsd, on 01/30/2009, -0/+20I love GNOME Do, but Docky is painfully slow, what's wrong? https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/do/+faq/324
- DeeBeeOh, on 01/30/2009, -0/+17I have talked to the packager, it will be in, no worries
- DeeBeeOh, on 01/30/2009, -0/+16The entire GNOME Do team recognizes that we stand on the shoulders of giants. We are lucky to be able to use the ideas of quicksilver and turn them into something we thing fits linux a little better. There is not a single member of the team, plugin author, beta testers, or packager that is not aware of where we came from. We know =)
- inactive, on 01/30/2009, -0/+15 I knew they would update it,but I did not expect THIS....Oh my!
I've always preferred KDE,but I'm seriously going to have to have a second look at Gnome! - davebsd, on 01/30/2009, -0/+13Also, the Windows 7 taskbar was likely in development for years by highly-paid, professional Microsoft engineers who work together in an office, with a marketing department with a multi-billion dollar budget.
Docky was created in 3 months by a few unpaid college students on borrowed, broken laptops who collaborate over IM... Kind of a weird comparison to make. - DeeBeeOh, on 01/30/2009, -0/+13Internally Docky has a very simple one off call for these indicators that is easily switched out. I put out a call for artists several times to help me with theming Docky. However nobody stepped up, save for one guy that made the dots look better than when I first made them, so the blue glowy dots stayed in the end. This is FOSS, I am a coder not an artist. If you want something other than glowy dots, submit a mockup and I will seriously consider it for 0.8.1. Or you can just sit there and complain and be completely useless to everyone... your call.
- inactive, on 01/30/2009, -1/+13 You are not a loser..Just cause your into this sort of thing..Have a blast!
A LOT of us will be doing the same damn thing! - lassegs, on 01/30/2009, -1/+13Its way killer-er
- wastern, on 01/30/2009, -15/+26Do you think the "future" would even be here right now in the form of Docky if it wasn't for "Assle" continuing development, and popularizing the use of the Dock
Get over yourself. GnomeDo and Docky are Quicksilver and the Dock from OS X, but in lunix, and when compared to Quicksilver, far less powerful.
Don't forget where stuff came from, so some respect to the originators (Alcor of Quicksilver) and those that pushed forward a dying idea and made it something truly superb for multitasking (Apple with the Dock) - brettalton, on 01/30/2009, -2/+13I hope to see this in Jaunty.
I sent a bug to the Ubuntu devs to upgrade to 0.8, but they're always picky about updating a program without it being a pull from Debian. Can anyone do packaging magic in Debian so we can see this in Ubuntu 9.04? - Greg2b, on 01/30/2009, -0/+11It's not a window manager, it's kind of like QuickSilver for Mac and the 'Run Application' dialog you get when hit Alt+F2 on the keyboard under Ubuntu. It is a sort of productivity tool for doing everything faster.
I like to keep my desktop clean from icons and files, so all I have to do run an app is hit Super+Space, and it brings up Gnome-Do. From there I can run apps, call people from my skype, update twitter, check my google calendar, look through pidgin and gmail contacts.
It really is an amazing program, you just need to try it and you'll notice how great it is. - KhaaL, on 01/30/2009, -4/+14This is a major release and worth gaining major attention. However, the fisheye effect in docky mode is _incredibly_ jerky...
it's a shame since i've been wanting to find something to replace AWN and Cairo-dock - KhaaL, on 01/30/2009, -0/+10Thank you, and congrats on a fine release!
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 01/31/2009, -0/+9Nerd unity to improve all of our self esteems!
- MonkeyFarts, on 01/30/2009, -0/+9OS X doesn't have that functionality available, period. In fact, you can't even kill Dock.app and keep it killed without some trickery. The moment you enter a 'killall Dock' command, it exits and then pops right back up, because Apple thinks you *need* it to be running. This means that you're stuck running their Dock, even if you somewhere, somehow find a third party dock that *could* integrate Quicksilver and a dock and wanted to use it exclusively instead.
- DBeta, on 01/30/2009, -1/+10Yeah, I can't wait to get off work to play with it. Gnome-Do is one of those "must have" programs as it is.
- chongli, on 01/30/2009, -0/+9As an OS X user I look at this as a very positive development. Even though I love OS X, Apple's behaviour as a company worries me. I fear one day I will have to abandon the platform if Apple's trend of iTunes App Store-style DRM lockdown invades the desktop OS. With the progression of open source software, my escape will only get easier.
- DeeBeeOh, on 01/30/2009, -0/+8you beat me to it david... KhaaL, I tried to make it as fast as I could for the nvidia people but in general there was only so much I can do. Check out the link posted above, it should help. I wish we could just do this by default for all the nvidia folks.
What is going on is that the xlib surfaces are being created by the driver in system memory. Which means that whenever the driver wants to paint those images to the screen, it has to transfer them. This is a driver issue and we can't do anything about it. However the 180.xx release series from nvidia fixes this issue for good. Intel and ATI users should have no performance issues, people with netbooks have reported good performance for Docky too.
Jason - mazza558, on 01/30/2009, -0/+8Ah but the Mac doesn't integrate quicksilver into its dock - or does it?
- llamarada, on 01/30/2009, -0/+8On their front page they actually say its "inspired" by Quicksilver
http://do.davebsd.com/index.shtml
And I agree, if its anything like quicksilver its awesome!! - cannonball, on 01/30/2009, -2/+9in this economy? ***** macs.
- LifeNova, on 01/30/2009, -0/+7No it doesn't.
- Greg2b, on 01/30/2009, -1/+8Just finished updating it now.
I have to say it. WOW.
Gnome-do has come a great speedy way, and I am in absolute love with this dock.
It will definitely being replacing my AWN dock from now on.
Great Job guys. - arbulus, on 01/31/2009, -2/+9@craftyguy
You are the kind of person that makes me (and many others) dislike large swaths of the Linux community.
Do you also often tell people to "read the man page" and that if they don't contribute code then they shouldn't be using FOSS? - 1longtime, on 01/30/2009, -0/+7Ze preview, it doez nossing!
(translation: the preview didn't clarify anything for me, so I have the same question as silfiriel.)
I think someone else replied with an explanation though. To be honest, I'm not sure I would use this tool, the last thing I'm interested in is another bouncy thing on the sidebar. ...but I'll give it a try. - hilo4321, on 01/30/2009, -1/+7there is a good lotr game?
do tell - tupperbacharach, on 01/30/2009, -1/+7@drlha
Why do Mac fanboys have such trouble understanding facts and chronology?
The windows dock/taskbar was released in 1985 (so it was developed earlier than 1985). The Acorn version was released in 1987 (also developed earlier).
The company NeXT came into existence in 1985, and its interface was not released until 1988, significantly, later than Windows and one year later than Acorn's Arthur.
So, the NeXT dock could not have been developed before that of Microsoft, and it is very, very unlikely that it was developed prior to the Acorn Arthur dock. - audiored, on 01/30/2009, -1/+7The only thing I don't really like about gnome is nautilus.
- underthewether, on 01/30/2009, -1/+7I've been using this program for a few months and it is one of the best apps available for linux
- Tyr7BE, on 01/30/2009, -1/+7Because AWN does about 1/50 what Gnome Do does.
- pacman122, on 01/30/2009, -1/+6Jam out with your RAM out???
- inactive, on 01/30/2009, -1/+6Looks great !!
- silfiriel, on 01/30/2009, -3/+8OK, I am excited, but not sure what exactly is it. i was using ubuntu for a while, so I am not an idiot, but someone please indulge me.
is it a
a) window manager,
b) just a dock,
c) replaces the gnome desktop enviroment
d) or some kind of a combo (please explain)
e) or what? (please explain)
f) other (must explain) - davebsd, on 01/30/2009, -0/+5Well, the first (among many differences) is that Docky is similar to the combination of a regular dock and a quick launcher. The OS X dock and Quicksilver are both interesting, useful, and sexy programs. Docky is an attempt to combine the best of both into a single desktop metaphor.
You probably won't understand the difference until you actually *use* the program in question. - midtown, on 01/30/2009, -0/+5did you install gnome-do-plugins too?
- Drazzard, on 01/30/2009, -1/+6the page says something about a banshee plugin. just updated my version, and can't find one.... if anybody sees something i passed over, let me know.
- tupperbacharach, on 01/30/2009, -1/+6The dock/taskbar (the interactive strip of icons along the screen edge) first appeared in Windows in 1985: http://toastytech.com/guis/bigw101.gif
And it was then further developed by Acorn: http://toastytech.com/guis/bigarthur.gif - silfiriel, on 01/30/2009, -0/+5thanks for the answers
amazingly, this might be a reason for me to go back or at least dual-boot with Ubuntu again. - DeeBeeOh, on 01/30/2009, -0/+5Please help, we need artists to submit mockups! I am not an artist, I just code things.
- freqk, on 01/30/2009, -2/+7Wow, that makes me want to get back into linux.
I'm currently dualbooting Windows 7 and OS X on my NC10 netbook :)
It's AWESOME. This is going to make it even more AWESOME. - courtjester555, on 01/30/2009, -0/+5a) Not at all
b) There's an optional dock component called Docky, which is new
c) No no no
It's a mouseless launcher pretty much. Takes away the need for program shortcuts and maybe even the start menu. You just press Super (the "Windows button") and Space and a window comes up. Then you type the name of the program you want and press enter. - Vadi0, on 01/30/2009, -0/+5You mean quicksilver-like. afaik mac does not have this feature in a default install (then again, neither does ubuntu - but point is that convenience and good design isn't mac-like).
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