Docky

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Cybe R. Wizard
<cyber_wizard at mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2010 14:22:07 +0100
> Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyone using this somewhat Mac OS X-like dock app?
>>
>> From a quick play, I quite like it but it's crashing and dying about
>> once every 20min, which makes it fairly unusable. Does it do this for
>> anyone else?
>>
> Regularly.  That's why I've switched to Cairo-dock.

Thanks for the recommendation, but...

Half an hour of user-interface hell later, I gave up and uninstalled
it. Horrible horrible HORRIBLE app.

 - There's no UI to remove a dock, AFAICS.

 - I can't see how to reorder icons.

 - It adds launchers automatically for apps I don't even have and
spawns multiple docks at the drop of a hat, e.g. when changing themes.

 - The themes range from vile to truly horrid. Strange orange wiggly
lines; flips and spins and bounces and fades, sometimes all at once;
weird little scurrying penguins like cockroaches.
18 types of lousy pseudo 3D and only 1 or 2 poor efforts at a simple
2D box which is all I need.

 - No way to disable allthe horrid ugly amateurish animations.

 - No "OK" buttons, just "apply" and "close".

 - Dozens of themes preinstalled, no visible way to remove them.

I could go on.

That was a truly nasty experience. Tacky, cheap-looking, lacking core
functionality but covered in fugly themes apparently designed by
11-year-olds. A real return to the bad old days of 1990s Linux.

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