Comments on: The Best Docks on the Linux Coast

By: Jasmin Maeno

Jasmin Maeno — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:20:21 +0000

netbook zubehoer Gute Testberichte zum Thema findet du auf http://www.netbook-community.de. Hab auf der Seite viele gute Artikel über das Asus Netbook gefunden gerade dieses ist im Bereich eee pc ja ein riesen Neuheit. Schaut das euch mal an viele hat das Asus Netbook überredet.

By: Relst

Relst — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:32:00 +0000

I’ll stick with Wbar, it is really fast, and does what is has to do: launch apps.

By: statubu

statubu — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:16:31 +0000

I have tried all the docks galore. This probably just me, but I have found docks to be just desktop clutter. There is fine line between usability and clutter. The normal stuff just works for me. The most usable of them all, which I do use occasionally is Gnone-do. For the rest, there may be some folks it would serve a purpose.

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[...] The Best Docks on the Linux Coast AWN (Avant-Window-Navigator). This is the first dock I tried a couple years back. It looks good, is easily configurable, and has a lot of great plugins (stacks, menu’s, weather etc…). It can pretty much replace the entire gnome-panel in features. However, I only ended up sticking with AWN for a couple months because the auto-hide feature was (and still is) buggy and would crash the dock during normal operation. This should be fixed for the upcoming 0.4 release; so, I might have to give it another try at that time. The original developer works with Canonical on the Ubuntu Netbook Remix (which I love) and is definitely capable of great things. [...]

By: nobodie

nobodie — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:31:50 +0000

opengeu has a builtin dock with some sexy features that were quite nice. I used their eeepc remix for a bit, but my tiny screen didn’t do justice to their artwork. On my desktop i have been using docky after similar experiences to this writer. But i also agree with many/some of the other commenters about macenvy syndrome. Frankly, i find that my fedora setup at work, which just puts launchers where i want them and , because it has a smaller screen than i have here at home, needs to be kept clean and not cluttered with extra stuff that takes up the real estate.

So, while i have been relatively happy with Docky, i will probably take it off from here soon and not use a dock. I just don’t find it as useful as a clean and correctly planned and organized desktop.

I tutor some young, 7th grade girls who have bought mac laptops through a school program (less virus trouble and a monolithic setup that allows pretty trouble free in-school connectivity). Their dock is so jammed packed full of everything they are doing, from papers to projects to apps to songs and movies, the icons are practically useless. This is not really what the apple people had in mind, but when you take windows trained kids and give them something like a mac they try to clutter the screen like thye do in windows. I found it interesting.

By: Myke

Myke — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:25:02 +0000

@Clopnixus – I use Linux, don’t I? Mmm…tasty.

By: birdydon

birdydon — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:52:14 +0000

Linux is all about choice.

Yes, docks are really not necessary and do consume resources so if if you don’t like them then why are you following this discussion?

I was using the Cairo Dock on my Hardy laptop. A few days ago there was an update that screwed it up miserably. I abandoned it and installed Docky. A few Mono related dependencies had to be installed for Docky to work. I have no love for Microsoft but Mono is just code and I cannot see myself fined or jailed because of a dock! You know, Apple patented the dock concept early this year and I can’t see myself being sued by them either.

I don’t know if I will stick with Docky, but it’s darn nice to have choices.

By: Grepnix

Grepnix — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:53:05 +0000

Anyone who has been both alive and conscious these past twenty-five years knows forming any sort of relationship with Microsoft, either directly or indirectly, customer or partner, is just asking for a raping.

By: Clopnixus

Clopnixus — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:14:21 +0000

“Seriously, people with Mono issues need to get over it…it’s a programming language (C#). As long as the resulting software is efficient and useful – that’s all that matters to me.”

You obviously either have a very short memory span or have never looked at anything in depth. You’d probably eat anything as long as it was ‘tasty’…

By: Myke

Myke — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:19:36 +0000

Seriously, people with Mono issues need to get over it…it’s a programming language (C#). As long as the resulting software is efficient and useful – that’s all that matters to me.

My favorite is Docky. I use the key launching functionality more but the dock is nice to look at.