Docky ‘Shortcut Bar’ now Stands Alone


Docky

Docky an AWN look-alike hits the road all alone. Formerly integrated with GNOME Do, Docky is now an independent application that has maintained many of its goodies like the in-built plug-ins and hopes to bring in more. This application is still at an early alpha level but it’s worth a try as its even very stable for an alpha.

Plug-ins presently available in Docky include battery monitor for notebooks, bookmarks, clock, CPU Monitor, Mounter plug-in, Network Manager, NPR (website), Trash, and Weather. Added to these are new comers Gmail notifier and recent documents.

To install Docky in Ubuntu Karmic add this PPA to your /etc/apt/sources.list file: ppa:docky-core/ppa and install with sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install docky

To personalize your docker run it; Applications -> Accessories -> Docky, then right-click on the “anchor” icon and hit “Settings”. The “Panel Mode” turns Docky into a Gnome panel that spans the width of the screen. Docky can run multiple docks, hit the “New Dock” button in “Docky Configuration” to fire-up another dock. You can dock almost anything you want to with a simple drag ‘n’ drop. Just as you drag-in to dock, drag-out to un-dock shortcuts.

Docky is a free download for Gnome desktops. Source codes are also available.

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4 Comments;

  1. toorghezi
    5:36 pm on December 19th, 2009

    Docky ‘Shortcut Bar’ now Stands Alone http://bit.ly/7JYbgl

  2. Gigi Lamoroso
    2:06 am on December 21st, 2009

    I checked, it still uses Mono, so no thanks.

    I tried Cairo dock with KDE but I realized that I still hate taskbars of any kind and have them usually disappear when not in use, so I am a bit bias.
    Docky looks nicer but just like that nice looking chick at the bar whose been around the block half a million times, you should always protect yourself from infections.

    When it comes to mono, I take the word of people who know what they are talking about in this matter: The Software Freedom Law Center, Eben Moglen, Bradley Kuhn, etc.

    Pass.

  3. Martin Kaba
    12:35 pm on December 21st, 2009

    You’re right it uses Mono, I just decided not to mention it this time around, I’m off the mono war. Then try AWN

  4. Matttbe
    2:54 pm on December 24th, 2009

    @ Gigi : Did you test the latest stable release of Cairo-Dock with KDE-integration plug-in ?

    But you can use Cairo-Dock in many different ways, like that : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOALiOFNhQs or http://www.cairo-dock.org/mc_album.php?a=3 .

    Cairo-Dock is coded in C, has many many applets, themes, views
    , supports OpenGL, etc. ;)
    Simply test-it !

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