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- jessejoedotcom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+116Definitely not developed by or related to Google. Here's the developer's blog http://njpatel.blogspot.com/
- utcursch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+87Some screenshots here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29906893@N00/tags/avantwindownavigator/
Kudos to the developer. This is great work indeed, but it's not the only OSX-like dock available for Linux. There are many others too:
macmenubar
http://static.flickr.com/112/284328104_6995c6f4b7_o.jpg
Gnome Dock - An evolution of cairo dock
http://www.gnome-dock.org/trac/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/cairo-dock-ss.png
KSmoothDock
http://ksmoothdock.sourceforge.net/
Engage (Englightenment)
http://edevelop.org/node/1764
http://www.tuxmachines.org/gallery/albums/fluxbox/engage.jpg
kxdocker
http://www.xiaprojects.com/www/prodotti/kxdocker/sshots/kxdocker_4.jpg
SuperKaramba, gdesklets and adesklets also offer such docks:
http://adesklets.sourceforge.net/images/screenshots/gnoomy_0.jpg
http://www.ubuntux.org/files/images/Pantallazo-1.preview.png
http://www.linux.org.ru/gallery/bigkHUDlc.jpg (SuperKarmaba)
And last but not the least, there is Kiba Dock (Akamaru), which has been on Digg before (OK OK, the bouncing icons are practically useless, but still it's cool):
http://people.freedesktop.org/~krh/akamaru.git/ (homepage)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8958142237254601573 (video) - evilTak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+51Google Code is just a hosting area, like sourceforge or berlios.
- diggapleaze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+49Lol I don't think google developed it, it's just hosted on Google Code.
- patricks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42Step 1) Buy Mac running bsd variant OS
Step 2) Remove bsd variant OS
Step 3) install linux
Step 4) go to great lengths to make linux look like original mac bsd variant OS
Step 5) smack self in face. - MrSketch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26Windows rips off OSX features and claims it was their own innovation.
Linux rips off OSX features and admits they got it from OSX.
Big difference. - DoubleYouSee, on 10/12/2007, -13/+34@bias
MS asks for money for their rip off... - EnderTheThird, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20For those of you wondering what the hell coopaq was smoking:
Stock Ticker = SRCSM = SaRCaSM
I'm not sure many people understood the joke. - pandasonic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19you're missing the part where MS charges you out-the-a$$ for those features and acts like they're innovative.
Apple is probably worst when it comes to proprietary stuff though. How come nobody complains about their DRM and "don't touch my OS and machines"? but when it comes to MS everyone has something to say.
Linux = free and someone who's not getting paid lotsamoney for their work came out with something comparable or better than MS. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Is there a .deb anywhere?
- widdershins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14There's a nice screencast of it at work at http://avant-window-navigator.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/web/ (awn-demo.ogg). Looks nice so far, but doesn't seem to have a zoom feature yet. There are a few Docks out there for Linux, but so far they all seem a bit lacking in one way or another. Perhaps this one will be the one that finally cracks it - although my money's on udock.
- ApeInago, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13@4NDr01D
hardware costs money, ideas don't. ideas, formulaes, sets of instructions, can be essentially copied and distributed for free.
one peice of hardware can only be used by one person, and they can not be copied without spending the appropriate cash on the material.
they do DESIGN hardware however, there are many open source DESIGNS out there, but companies can't profet of them, so they are rarely mass-produced. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13AWESOME.
I thought this was kiba which is OK but quite distractive.
But it will be really awesome if they could introduce a feature using which one could drag a rpm or deb file into the dock to install apps this will make apple user feel at home.
Thre are people who are scared of using terminal for those it would really cool if they could just drag and drop a link into dock or a menu in order to install something. - psxman, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16You forgot one:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Gnustep.png - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9i think mac can also be a bit lenient on the *nix and bsd world considering where they got their initial kernel from anyways. :)
and just to echo, it's not like the linux world is claiming it is something new and inventive, they admit it is a mimic. - robbh66, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"what am i missing here?"
Giving credit where credit is due.
However, I'll tell you what I'm missing-
Beryl on OS X. - WiseWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Get off my lawn, damn kids...
- EndersGame, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10bias the point is Microsoft tries to cash in on other people's innovations essentially keeping their monopoly in the computer software industry. With Linux you have countless people devoting countless hours of their own time to deliver the same innovations and ideas for free. The two are hardly alike.
- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Good list. Thanks. There's also Kooldock
Resembling the Mac OSX Dock in KDE
http://www.youtux.org/content/view/357/2/ - tupperbacharach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Apple did not invent the dock/interactive-taskbar. Docks and interactive-taskbars were around at least 14 years before Mac OS X was released.
Here is a screenshot of the first one known, appearing in 1985 on Windows 1.01:
http://toastytech.com/guis/bigw101.gif
For some reason, the dock/taskbar was dropped from Windows, and it next appeared in Risc/Acorn in 1987:
http://media.arstechnica.com/images/gui/20-riscos.gif
I believe that some Linux/Unix window managers were using the term "dock" for their interactive-taskbar prior to the release of Mac OS X. - digga, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Alt-Tab doesn't do anything in OSX.... I think you mean Cmd-Tab.
- pijalu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7after the make, in the src, go in sub data dir and do
gconftool-2 --install-schema-file=avant-window-navigator.schemas - debian_, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7sinembarg0: you can create a .deb from a .rpm by using alien.
sudo apt-get install alien
then google for proper conversion params. - usergentoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Here is a decent OS X rip I did myself.
http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=52541&file1=52541-1.png&file2=&file3=&name=Carbon+Mac+OS+X+clone - Hostile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It's not done by Google. It's just on Google Code, like a SourceForge if you will.
- aaron.dunlap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5this isn't an OSX-like dock at all... this is an active window display bar.... and a quite featureless one at that. All this does is show you the active windows on your screen and let you minimize/maximize them.
- tehkain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It amazes me that you even installed an alternate OS without the capability to understand that google did not code this. Its only listed on google code. Its developed by http://njpatel.blogspot.com/.
- MackPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4dear god, someone here has a ***** clue.
- funnylookinhat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Some of us have operating systems that install files when we double click the .deb (ubuntu does at least), rather than have to figure out where to drag it. ; )
- bullox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Segfaults ahoy!
Even after I did the above^ - Dankoozy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6tried to install it doesnt work only ever segfaults
- getaclue, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Thanks a ton for the list. I'd thumbs up you 10 more times if I could. I can't get kiba-dock to work right for me no matter what I read and try to follow and I haven't even heard of other docks out there. I'll have to give these a try when I get the chance.
- ear1grey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Great but... according to Tog, it'll still suck: http://www.asktog.com/columns/044top10docksucks.html
- Magillicutti, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I like the marijuana leaf pattern.
- patricks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I ran into a problem with libwnck as well.
Compiling this guy first cleaned it right up:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libwnck/2.16/libwnck-2.16.0.tar.gz - cyberwiz01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Same here
- betovarg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Im new to linux... is there any page where i can see how to install it?
- samdu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think he meant help on installing the app. If that's the case, double click on the tarball in whatever file manager you're using, copy the resulting folder to your home folder, and open a command prompt. Drill down to the new folder containing the app and type ".configure" when that's done, type "./make" when that's done, type "./make install"
At least that's how you'd normally do it. I haven't installed it yet due to dependency issues. - EternalNY1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Buried as inaccurate, Google has nothing to do with this other than hosting the project.
- Trenton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Great list! I just compiled up ksmoothdock, and it works very nicely! The only problem I had was with the parabalic zooming, although I'm fine with just single icon zoom. Impressive list! =]]
- traviscaruth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2lets see...
ms doesnt admit they stole os x's ideas
linux does....
maybe its just me but im not to sure you know quite what you are talking about... - redxii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I can't find "macmenubar" searching Google..
- ErifNeerg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2first off, safari looks nothing like firefox. second firefox comes from Mosaic.
- BlackAdderIII, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The title and description are inaccurate because:
1. This is not made by google, it's just hosted on Google Code. Anyone could have made this so you can't present it as the work of Google. :-)
2. Avant doesn't really work like OS X's dock anyway, save your time if you expect it to.
3. Avant, whilst I'm sure it's a fine piece of software, is not revolutionary, or even top of the pile for dock/docker/panel applications by a long way, so even if it were by Google, this wouldn't mean everyone was rushing out to install it.
Buried as inaccurate because of 1. - ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@djmdave: I buried psxman because this article is for an OSX like dock for Linux, and his link points to a screenshot of a window manager that in no way resembles OSX. It has nothing to do with the underlying system (BSD/openstep/NeXTstep), but with the user interface.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was just thinking the same thing. I remember seeing SuperKaramba doing this back in 2001.
- MeltedUFO, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3http://en.opensuse.org OpenSuse
http://www.ubuntu.com Ubuntu
Probably the easiest ones to install. If you know how to burn a CD image just burn it and pop it in.
(If you don't do a quick Google search) - zeebo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You'd be right about that, Engage has already been mentioned as being a MacOS X like dock. However, I remember thinking the same thing about E17 way back in 2002. Its one reason I ultimately went with Gnome. Time based releases are way better than feature based releases because it helps avoid creeping features since they can't delay a projects release.
- Spatulas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The above worked nicely for me :) Thanks!
- groggyboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3uhh, how would i go about this (on Ubuntu):
[quote]You will almost definatley need to build libwnck again due to one silly change you need to make in the source:
in libwnck/private.h change
#define DEFAULT_ICON_WIDTH XX - this could be any number, most likely 32
#define DEFAULT_ICON_HEIGHT XX
to
#define DEFAULT_ICON_WIDTH 48
#define DEFAULT_ICON_HEIGHT 48
you need to update & install libwnck with these changes before you install Awn. [/quote]
Maybe i should just compile from SVN... -
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