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!
:-)
Marko