Sidebar for Fiesty

[Paul Johnson]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> 20080628 1948 GMT-6
>
> http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Sidebar+Screenlet+(Vista'ish+look)?content=63172
>
> I saw a thread on another group about ubuntu sidebars. This sidebar was
> suggested as being a good one.
>
> Is anyone using this?
> If so, is it any good?
> Are there other recommended sidebars?
>
> Im using Fiesty still so keep that in mind :)
>
> Wade

I don't know on Feisty. You should update :)

 In Hardy, I tested out several of these docking things.  I think the
best looking & most useful is avant-window-navigator.  It is in the
Hardy dist., and there is a screenlet extras package that you can get
separately (not in Hardy yet) and it works fine. It requires a
compositing window manager like compiz, though.  The really big
selling point for this one is that it has an applet called "shiny
switcher" that is a pager.  Really nice looking.  Right now, the
versions I'm running are from the launchpad website:

https://launchpad.net/awn

$ dpkg -l | grep avant
ii  avant-window-navigator-bzr                 0.3.1.bzr274.1~hardy
                           Avant Window Navigator
ii  awn-core-applets-bzr                       0.3.1.bzr569.1~hardy
                           A collection of applets for
avant-window-nav
rc  libawn0                                    0.2.1-0ubuntu2
                           library for avant-window-navigator

I had a hard time finding the site where I downloaded those. I am
pretty sure this is it:

https://launchpad.net/~reacocard-awn/+archive

I also tried cairo dock and did not think it was as nice because I
didn't find a pager applet.  There's a really cook one called kiba
that may be the best when it is ready, but it is unstable for me and
it is still development & testing.  It has cool visual effects where
you can drag the dock and icons around and they bounce like things in
Numpty Physics.


It looks like everybody and his uncle is making dock and screenlet
programs.  Where are you getting the "screenlets" from with that dock?
 Is there a standardized API for screenlets, or does every dock
program create its own framework?


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Paul E. Johnson
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