New gnome dock à la MacosX

[gnumdk]

gnome-dock (cairo-dock) is a MacosX dock like app.

http://www.gnome-dock.org/trac

It works but is not really usable as this (no placement, ...)

Here is a version working on my laptop:
http://hibbert.univ-lille3.fr/~cbell...o-dock.tar.bz2

just put this in /opt and use make to build it.

How to use it:
1) I run it like this on Xgl: /opt/cairo-dock/cairo-dock --no-glitz --no-background
2) To add, remove, change applications, you need to directly change source code:

static Icon g_aIcons[] =
{
{"/opt/cairo-dock/user-home.svg", "Perso", "nautilus --no-desktop"},
{"/opt/cairo-dock/gnome-terminal.svg", "Terminal", "gnome-terminal"}
}
You just need to add elements to this array.

3) By default, MacSlow use screen width for dock width but i don't like this because i was unable to right click near the panel area.
So, if you add applications, you may need to change the dock width by changing this line in the source code:
g_iCurrentWidth = 750;

4) By default, gnome-dock doesn't remember it place on screen. To force screen placement, you will need to change this line in source code:
gdk_window_move(pWindow, 245, 655); // 245=x, 655=y

The current dock placement is for 1280x800 resolution.

Here the result:
http://hibbert.univ-lille3.fr/~cbell...cairo-dock.png

ps: Sorry for my english

[bohboh]

Is it stable?

I tried Expocity and it sent my system mad, it just wouldnt work.

[gookie]

That looks pretty nice.
I tried executing the make file but it wont compile. It gave me literally hundred lines of error...

[bohboh]

That looks pretty nice.
I tried executing the make file but it wont compile. It gave me literally hundred lines of error...

Same here.

[madchicken]

try with:

sudo apt-get install librsvg2-bin librsvg2-common librsvg2-dev libglitz-glx1 libglitz-glx1-dev

This should work.

Bye

[bohboh]

try with:

sudo apt-get install librsvg2-bin librsvg2-common librsvg2-dev libglitz-glx1 libglitz-glx1-dev

This should work.

Bye

I get this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
librsvg2-common is already the newest version.
libglitz-glx1 is already the newest version.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  libglitz-glx1-dev: Depends: libglitz-glx1 (= 0.5.3-0ubuntu2) but 0.5.6-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
                     Depends: libglitz1-dev (= 0.5.3-0ubuntu2) but 0.5.6-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
  librsvg2-dev: Depends: libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.4) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Just out of curiosity (and for future reference), how did you find out which libraries it needed?

[madchicken]

I found the libraries reading the first line of 'make' output. Make was missing some libraries...
For your problem: it seems you have a problem with dependancies. I'm not a apt-get expert, so try using synaptic and see if it could resolve problems for you.
From the output I can see that you have only to install libglitz-glx1-dev and librsvg2-dev. They are needed to compile the program.

Bye

[gookie]

Yup. It finally compiled after getting the dependencies.
@bohboh, the libglitz-glx1 installed fine on mine...I have the xgl/compiz repository added on my sources list and I know they came there coz it's the only un-authenticated repository I have (had to add them for aiglx/compiz).

Anyhoo, cairo-dock is working...but I think I need to fiddle with the source (as per instruction)...it has no transparency (black box around it)...cud this be because I have aixgl/compiz on?

Edit: btw, I compiled from svn.

[bohboh]

Edit: btw, I compiled from svn.

What do you mean?

[gookie]

I downloaded the source from gnome dock's SVN instead of the tar.gz on this post.

svn co http://www.gnome-dock.org/svn/