Objectdock

OttoDestruct · June 2005

ObjectDock actually works and works well.... and it can do all the things I would expect (being able to run programs, widgets being able to show time etc). I might keep this around.

Pulse · June 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CMEast @ Jun 25 2005, 10:25 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Soon as possible I plan to buy the full version so I can say bye to the windows task bar forever <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Or you could just get one of the better and free alternatives.

RKLauncher is actually much better than YzDock (and ObjectDock), the only thing it doesn't have is a way to set a delay for when it appears if you set it to autohide, which some people might see as a big thing, but meh.

OttoDestruct · June 2005

I have a decent setup with ObjectDock now. I searched around for a while to get a docklet for the system tray, but the only one I got working was buggy and wasnt worth the crashing, so I discovered something pretty helpful.... the fact that a program is in the system tray means its currently running... theres an option when one of the shortcuts is clicked it will just bring up the currently running program instead of making a new instance, so I just made shortcuts of the programs that run in my system tray, so essentially now I have a system tray.

Dubbilex · June 2005

See, if I wanted to get rid of the windows taskbar and use this thing then I'D JUST BUY A MAC <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

OttoDestruct · June 2005

I like the mac taskbar, I hate everything else about it. Including the brushed metal crap all over the place that looks like a 30 second photoshop texture flood fill.

DaJMasta · June 2005

The original dock and this one are a nice bit of eyecandy, yes, but I don't see all that much extra functionality than with desktop icons and a taskbar.

Its like using a drawer instead or a shelf to hold things, some people like it, but its really doing exactly the same thing.

DragonMech · June 2005

Hey DOOM - how did you get it to take a screenshot of the firefox page to use in the taskbar?

Pulse · June 2005

Turn "Minimize to dock" or whatever the objectdock equivilant is on.

MedHead · June 2005

I tried this last year, and deleted it rather quickly. It was doing just what Windows was doing for me, but required more CPU usage because it was a program on top of Windows. It didn't even work that well for me, either.

Ironically, I've heard of Apple computer users being annoyed with the dock, the very thing Windows users are trying to install.

Nemesis_Zero · June 2005

Not to come off as a blasé naysayer, but i honestly never saw the benefit in usability from these toolbars. OK, it works like a magnifying lens. Yee-haw.

DOOManiac · June 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Pulse @ Jun 30 2005, 03:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Turn "Minimize to dock" or whatever the objectdock equivilant is on.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Partially correct. However firefox itself has an issue that for some reason when you do a regular minimize it doesn't get a screenshot correctly. To see a firefox screenshot you gotta minimize it by clicking the big firefox logo in the objectdock.

I kinda got over the spiffyness factor of this thing myself a few days ago when I had realized I didn't even know it was running anymore, never used it, and so just uninstalled it. Heh.

Still, was damn sexy... :P

Pulse · June 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Jun 30 2005, 04:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Partially correct. However firefox itself has an issue that for some reason when you do a regular minimize it doesn't get a screenshot correctly. To see a firefox screenshot you gotta minimize it by clicking the big firefox logo in the objectdock.
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Well, it's not my fault if Objectdock sucks too much to do it. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

DragonMech · June 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nemesis Zero @ Jun 30 2005, 05:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Not to come off as a blasé naysayer, but i honestly never saw the benefit in usability from these toolbars. OK, it works like a magnifying lens. Yee-haw.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
I use it for my games; it removed half of the icons on my desktop. Throw on a clock and an... 'interesting' <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' />... firefox icon, and I'm good to go.

Blobby · July 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Crono5 @ Jun 25 2005, 12:59 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Didn't like it, no right-side box taskbar thing, so I can't get to Winamp, or Trillian, or Shareaza. But it <i>did</i> look very pretty. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Crap, that may be a deal breaker for me... is there no way to fix it? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' />

Edit: Oh. I should read. I see one decent solution above.

R_A_C · July 2005

I would love object dock if the free version had the systray in it. I used to have a... thing... that allowed me to use the full version without paying, but it doesn't seem to work anymore.

Monkfish · July 2005

Dam this is hard to get used to..

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