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- vault, on 10/10/2007, -0/+34That's pretty nice...I like 3d turn with spotlight the best.
- ExxonValdeez, on 10/10/2007, -2/+33I love this application! Great eye-candy and useful as well. Glad to see a stable release. Can't wait to do a bzr checkout. By the way, the squishy animation rocks!
- energyblue, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21I'm not much of a linux man, but I have a old machine thats just begging to be loved again.
- sexybobo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18And leopard stole the dock from Sun's Looking glass http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/details. ... awn did the same thing that apple did they took something that was already there and made it better.
- vh1`, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11it supports neither gnome or kicker (which won't be around much longer) applets
it supports AWN applets - bluelightnin90, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12can anyone please explain or give me a link that explains how to install this. I am still a little new to ubuntu and I am not sure how to install it. I downloaded it and I don't understand the instructions in the text file named install. I would love to get this version running, because I have the beta version running and I love it. This would also be great to help persuade my friends to switch to linux, as if beryl or compiz fusion isn't enough. Thanks.
- wiihuck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Yes. AWN requires a compositer.
- mrjit, on 10/15/2007, -0/+10For gutsyiers, you'll need to sudo aptitude install libwnck22 if you receive the "avant-window-navigator: error while loading shared libraries: libawn.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" error
- frazw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9How did I miss this app, way nicer than the kiba-dock was the last time I tried it. Very cool, thanks for the post
- midtown, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10This is hardly true. There were new versions in the bzr repositories practically daily! This is just the one that got tagged as 0.2 and is an "official" release.
- cvrefugee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Normally you would go to the terminal and navigate to the proper directory, then type in a few commands to install it. If you downloaded the .tar file to your Desktop, you would type these commands in the terminal:
cd Desktop
cd avant-window-navigator-0.2
./configure
make
sudo make install
The only problem I ran into was that I didn't have some packages and dependencies installed, so I had to go into the Synaptic Package Manager to get them. - KibibyteBrain, on 10/10/2007, -4/+12...and Sun based looking glass on more simple dock concepts dating back to NeXT, which was the precursor to OSX @_@.
http://www.osdata.com/system/ui/screens/snext.htm - niallabrown, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Mac stole it verbatim from a Sun OS so lets not start this whole thing again.
- xjbri, on 10/20/2007, -2/+10I asked Microsoft to make my Vista more reliable and fast... It's been a year and I'm still waiting.
You can't demand much more from commercial software, either! - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9As a Mac user, I find you to be a total idiot. For the record, the OSX Dock came from Sun, before it went to Next, then OSX. I like the features this dock has, they are pretty cool.
Linux has Beryl, which I dont have, and wish I had for the Mac. I fire up Sabayon when I get tired of OSX and then wish I could have half of the ***** Linux has. - midtown, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9And how awesome is it that open source moves so quickly it technically gets to pre-date it?
- mrjit, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Let's hear your marvelous ideas as to what wonderful and completely original things can be done to an OS interface, I'm waiting.
- midtown, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7yeah, that is a milestone for 0.3.
- vh1`, on 10/10/2007, -8/+15what gnome-specific artwork is there?
- wiihuck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7So let me get this straight, as an OS X user, you're willing to both wait and pay $129 to get eye candy that's already available for free for us Linux users?
I'm an OS X / Ubuntu dual booter on my Macbook, and I'm one long weekend away from dumping OS X. - crestfall, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7what about this repo?
http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/
That's what most people used for the stacks feature (bzr), or so it seems from ubuntuforums.
Will that eventually update, or do we need to install a different package? I don't even know what bzr means, but that's what I'm using. - kazamx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Its not going to be in the official Gutsy repo (not even universe)
You will need to go to the official AWN site and find their repo and add it to your install. Another option is to check getdeb.com and see if you can get a version from there and upgrade it to the most recent version - Garfunkel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6very nice, he brings the good yet again!
i just wish you could put the dock at the top of the screen, i hate my gnome panel up the top and would like it down the bottom with the dock up the top, i'm sure that will come :) - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7NO!! You just don't get it, Apple invented EVERYTHING!!!!! they even INVENTED INVENTING!!! therefore anything that is ever invented ever is just copying Apple!!!
The MACH KERNEL that POWERS OSX was INVENTED by APPLE and the BSD userspace tools!!! Also CUPS! They sent a crack team of TIME PROGRAMMERS back from the year 2032 to create those projects as open source projects because they knew that the APPLE OF THE PAST would take them and use them, they needed to do it this way to ensure that the QUANTUM TIME CONTINUUM wasn't broken and cause a PARADOX to occur which would result in the DESTRUCTION OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE and the UNKNOWN UNIVERSE!!!
Apple INVENTED the GUI and the MOUSE!!!!
MICROSOFT was founded by a group of TIME PIRATES that was formed by BILL GATES who was a APPLE TIME PROGRAMMER that went ROGUE.
EXCESSIVE AND RANDOM capitalization!!! - vh1`, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6since AWN relies on GTK and the main developer uses gnome, I assumed the parent was referring to gnome
"you know what happens when you assume ... "
I apologize. but my point still stands. what specific artwork is there? there is none. you can have a dock with no icons, just colors that you yourself choose. other than the fact that the various dialogs are GTK/python-gtk - wiihuck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6-$129. That's how much.
- mmmiiikkkeee, on 10/20/2007, -0/+6"I know it's an extreely unpopular sentimen"....... digg is USER created content.. It IS what is popular. I think you are on the wrong web site; google for "unpopular news" and i guess you will find "not" digg
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Exactly what Nialla said. Mac stole it from PLG.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Looking_Glass - planksconstant, on 10/10/2007, -5/+10no, he's absolutely right. the spinning effect looks great, as does the spotlight like glow, but really, there is no real reason for that. It looks cool, but i agree. most of the special effects are cool for the first week, and after that you just want the dock to do what you want it to do.
thats not to knock this app, its really cool. i'm just saying, too much eye candy is not a good thing. - roebeet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=385981
I usually compile from source, to get the latest changes. But it sounds like this new stable release should have the latest effects, right now. - Hermmunster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5You should not assume that Linux is for old hardware. Linux deserves as much power as you can give it. Not that it won't work but to disseminate that Linux is for old hardware does Linux a disservice.
- martalli, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Unfortunately, what the linux fans like myself should be saying is: "look at the neat stuff we cxan turn out with an open platform!" Knocking other OS's on every feature opens up the possibility of a human factors debate that either side could win...certainly familiarity is on the side of the established OS's.
But what the heck, it looks great, and congrats to the developer! - Nossie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4like the rest of linux, AWN is updated incrementally .... I'm not sure where your going with that thought (even as a mac fan) OS X is updated every few years...
use svn, git or cvs and get nightly builds? ... you know ... like you do with bsd tools in OSX? -- or maybe you dont. - tech42er, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4OK, so it won;t take off in your mind. I guess that's a bad thing. I'll just continue using, though.
- LinuxGalore, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Docks with animated effects have been around for years, even before OSX. i was using an animated dock on Windows 98 and in Unix around the mid 90's.
- jbus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4About as much as Leopard's "new" dock looks like the dock in Sun Microsystems previously existing 3D desktop.
- jbus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Quit your whining... It took six months for another stable release.The development branch has been frequently updated. Most AWN users have been using the the development branch, helping to test it or help improve it. It may come along a little slower and lack flashy marketing, but I'll gladly take software that's made out of devotion and caring for the community rather than software that is made solely for a profit motive.
- logic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I haven't grabbed this update yet but I've been using awn every day for months and can't remember experiencing a single crash. Maybe something else is to blame?
- Malachai, on 10/22/2007, -0/+3http://bp3.blogger.com/_Xie1ydrCav4/RujzdfVU8ZI/AA ...
I'm a fan of AWN's curve look. It's unique. - Hermmunster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You have it backwards. Open Source is updated much more frequently than code created via the proprietards. You can't get updates as fast as you do in Open Source. I have received updates about every other week on AWN. Sometimes they aren't as good as the last and other times they are. Unfortunately this is not a stable release. It is pretty and full of utility but not stable.
- voxel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Anyone have any idea when this will hit the repos?
- craftyguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It still has a few gnome-specific dependencies...booo
- Konstantino, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Yeah, my mind was unexpectedly blown away when I saw 3D by itself, but the combo takes the cake.
- kazamx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Just give him a cuddle, he is young and doesn't know about the world outside or before OSX
- wiihuck, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3this is about an update of a very popular app. a stable release.
if you don't see any articles about quicksilver, you need to open your eyes. if QS was ever updated, you'd see more articles. - MacPPC, on 10/10/2007, -7/+10Ok, sure the looks of this dock iteration look nice, but, talking about innovation...well that dock has the exact look Leopard's has, so what's up with the "Awn" innovation? They couldn't have a different idea for a dock. Now I'm not bashing the developers of this fine dock, just making a point here.
- 0xception, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3... isn't the OSX dock in general just eye candy as well? (along w/ AWN) i'm sure there's more efficient ways to do the same thing. I think the point of the dock and these other OpenGL effects is just that, eye candy, and there's nothing wrong w/ it...
w/ the eye candy friends and family will think linux is "way cool", as the real benefits of switching from windows isn't all that persuasive to people... most just like the razzle dazzle, and once that wares off they are already satisfied w/ all the other benefits it offers.... dont get me wrong i agree, most are a bit much and just a waste of resources, but that's why you get a choice to turn them off :) - ptFoe, on 10/17/2007, -3/+6The Applets available for this dock makes it surpass OSX's.
- kazamx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Only in commercial software. In OSS things don't tend to come out of beta for ALONG time.
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I agree. I don't use docks. I use keyboard launchers.
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