GNOME Do – 0.8 Alpha and Docky
A friend told me not much ago about a new cool dock called Docky, which happened to be not yet another dock application, but a new interface for GNOME Do which was released yesterday as part of version 0.8 Alpha (aka 0.7.95). You can see it in action in this video.
Of course, I had to try it out while it’s hot, and I can tell you it is really cool («bye bye, AWN!»; well, in case I decide to use a dock again. I’m more than happy with gnome-panel right now). If you are running Hardy or Intrepid, you can get the alpha from the do-testers PPA. There is currently no amd64 version of the gnome-do package there because of a problem with the PPA, but I got one ready for you which you can get here: gnome-do_0.7.95.1-0~intrepid~ppa1_amd64.deb; note that you’ll still need gnome-do-plugins from the PPA.
Update: I’ve also build a newer version, 0.7.99.1, for 64 bit systems: gnome-do_0.7.99.1-0~intrepid~ppa1_amd64.deb
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“I’m more than happy with gnome-panel right now”
I’ll be ‘more than happy’ once my window-picker-applet bugs are cleared out.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/window-picker-applet/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-importance
As for window list applets, just.. no. And docks are, of course, ridiculous overkill.
Actually, it’s NOT available for Hardy. The new GNOME Do make extensive use of C# 3.0 features, which are only found in mono 1.9 or higher. The plugins actually ship a copy of the mono 2.0 gmcs.exe to build with because of bugs in the 1.9 compiler.
That’s pretty neat. I just use AWN for the window list, and the nice bouncing the icons do – if ‘docky’ does the same, then it’ll be one less program to run I guess.
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Sexy stuff :D
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