[Syllable-developer] Dock add-on

[<jon...@sy...>]

Hi,

has everyone fallen into winter-coma already? :)

Anyway, here is something that might interesting a few of you. Its
basically an add-on for the dock and inspired by Ubuntu. It shows you on
the bottom of the screen all currently opened windows not only with an
icon (as todays Dock is doing) but also with text so that you can easier
spot the window you wish to open. The button to the left minimize all
windows and brings the desktop to front. If you right click on a
"windowbutton" you have a nice (but quite small) popup menu from which you
can e.g. directly close a window.

The app is not intensively tested but should work fairly well. One
annoying thing is when you maximize a window, the window will hide the
dock (due to that the system doesnt not take the dock in consideration
when calculating possible full window size). No support for changing
screen resolution on the fly but then again, how often do you do that?

Binary and source: http://www.jarvoll.se/syllable/files/edock_20071031.zip
Unzip and start the dock with "./edock &"

Screenshot: http://www.jarvoll.se/syllable/files/edock_1.png

Have fun! :)

  Jonas