Cairo-like dock for KDE? [SOLVED]

Marcelo Magno T. Sales mmtsales at gmail.com
Thu Aug 21 00:53:49 UTC 2008


Em Qua 20 Ago 2008, Marko Vojinovic escreveu:
> On Monday 18 August 2008 19:42, Phil Meyer wrote:
> > Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > > Ok, you  know, that thing from Mac OS X, that zooms the icons
> > > parabolically when you hover the pointer over them...
> >
> > Cairo is available in Fedora:
> >
> > cairo-dock
> > cairo-dock-devel
> > cairo-dock-plug-ins
> > cairo-dock-plug-ins-xfce
> > cairo-dock-themes
>
> Now this calls for a "WOW!!!", I'm impressed !! :-)
>
> At first google helped me find something called "OxygenLeopard", a
> SuperKaramba widget that was pretty much a disaster, a simple python
> script that draws the icons. It had no way of configuring, and the
> script itself was pretty badly written.
>
> Then I tried KoolDock, which looked much more promising. It was
> configurable, apparently did the job required, but somehow was
> "jumpy" in animation.
>
> But then I tried the "real thing", and of course it completely
> outperforms KoolDock, and I guess pretty much everything else. It is
> beutiful, slick, smooth in animation, has bunch of themes,
> configurable beyond any imagination... I am considering to drop the
> plasma-panel (at least until kde 4.1 comes around) as Cairo can be
> configured with equivalent functionality, even more, while it looks
> *much* better... I recommend it to everyone.
>
> Thanks to Phil and others for the info, and especially the Fedora
> team who made this beautiful thingy available!

How did you add K Menu to Cairo dock?

[]'s
Marcelo




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