Comments on: GNOME Do – 0.8 Alpha and Docky

By: Catch GNOME Do 0.8 being silly « I’m Just an Avatar

Catch GNOME Do 0.8 being silly « I’m Just an Avatar — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:13:56 +0000

[...] in Do 0.8, and I found it when I was reading my RSS feeds the other day. When I set Do to use the Docky theme I saw this on the bottom of my [...]

By: CoolGoose

CoolGoose — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:36:19 +0000

Sexy stuff :D

By: christoph-langner.de » GNOME Do 0.8 steht in den Startlöchern

christoph-langner.de » GNOME Do 0.8 steht in den Startlöchern — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:44:47 +0000

[...] werden kann, hin. Leider führt das PPA noch keine Pakete für 64-bit Ubuntus. In diesem Blog gibt es jedoch ein Paket für Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit, das man sich wie üblich installieren kann. [...]

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:38:35 +0000

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.

By: RAOF

RAOF — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:04:23 +0000

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.

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:46:26 +0000

“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.