Ago said:
Cool, but you need a mousewheel ;)

No. If you put the mouse on the right, the icon "scroll" on the right, and same idea for the left.

EDIT : you are right, we NEED a mousewheel. Sorry, I didn't read correctly the code.

Ago said:
Cool, but you need a mousewheel ;)

Maybe, if this solution is implemented, we can use arrow instead of mousewheel.
The arrow can be on the bottom, or on the right and left.

nicolas2b54 said:
I understand. I wonder how to put more launchers, nad more tasks in the bar => we need a solution, something to "compress" the display or anything else. For example, when I use the dock, sometimes some part are out of the screen.

+1
If you have too many launchers + open windows, the dock become very big (very smal if it shrink :))
I think it can be an option for the launcher/task manager, the line or the circle :)
And a new french dev for AWN, this could be cool :)

nicolas2b54 said:
I don't agree on one things : "any kind of visual change of an icon impossible" => why it is impossible ? a right click, and change icon like now, all the icon are not draw immediatly, it would be easy to get modified icon

I meant that you won't see these visual changes if an icon is in the rear end of that icon circle where it's not visible.

asomething said:
andrew@andrew-laptop:~$ eevo
Erreur impossible d'ouvrir le fichier config !
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

The problem is that it looks for the config file in the same directory as the binary. Try this...

./configure
cd src
./eevo

Now the problem is, for me at least, it "loads" a bunch of stuff, but is never displayed.

augur said:

This is awesome! I like that you can click on an application (like you did for movies) and your movies come up to scroll through. You might make the radius of the circle a bit bigger though to show more icons. Maybe instead of a circle you could make it an ellipse so as to show more icons at once.

nicolas2b54 said:
Yes, I agree for the open task. But for the lauchers, how to display many without go out of the screen.
And, if we use a carrousel or something like that, we can dispaly 4 or 5 icon at the same time not one, and so it's fast to see all of the lauchers.
Of course, we must keep ALL the task icon display et the same time.

maybe we coudl have a caroseel on on ehelf the dock for the launchers but when soemthing is launched its moved to the other side as a task... this coudl look really messy, but i bet someone coudl think of a pleasent way to make this look....

nicolas2b54 said:
Yes, I agree for the open task. But for the lauchers, how to display many without go out of the screen.
And, if we use a carrousel or something like that, we can dispaly 4 or 5 icon at the same time not one, and so it's fast to see all of the lauchers.
Of course, we must keep ALL the task icon display et the same time.
That would be a solution but, in my opinion, we could come up with better ones if we brainstorm on the possibilities.

I had this idea for months and even commented on it on Neil's blog and he replied me he was working on a solution similar to mine but better.

What I have in mind is something like this:
Show only tasks and applets on the Avant Window Navigator and have the launchers hidden on "the other side of the dock". When you want to launch an app, simply use some keystrokes or click in a small icon on the dock itself that flips the dock horizontally displaying the launchers that were on the other side and hiding the tasks and applets side. After clicking on a launcher, the dock would flip back to the side where the tasks and applets are.

PS: Sorry about my English, btw...

augur said:
And what you think about this solution we can see all icons in the same time...

Well it's better than the regular blurred version. But I still like it better when all the icons are listed up so I have control over what happens at all times, if you see what I mean?

As for me, I would like either to have it like awn today, which resizes the icons, but better coded (and now, if it resizes, all custom icons become standard) - or a new solution which makes it easy for me controlling both applets and launchers and open apps at the same time, and crystal clear. I'm not a huge fan of using blur like that...

morbidous said:
What I have in mind is something like this:
Show only tasks and applets on the Avant Window Navigator and have the launchers hidden on "the other side of the dock". When you want to launch an app, simply use some keystrokes or click in a small icon on the dock itself that flips the dock horizontally displaying the launchers that were on the other side and hiding the tasks and applets side. After clicking on a launcher, the dock would flip back to the side where the tasks and applets are.

nah i dont like the extra click....

I think cover flow woudl solve this problem perfectly. You could choose how many things you would want "facing you" and you coudl easily scroll through the thing son your dock. But since the ones not facing you are still somewhat visible, if a notification happened they could still jump up....just they woudl be on an angle and you then scroll to it.

morbidous said:
What I have in mind is something like this:
Show only tasks and applets on the Avant Window Navigator and have the launchers hidden on "the other side of the dock". When you want to launch an app, simply use some keystrokes or click in a small icon on the dock itself that flips the dock horizontally displaying the launchers that were on the other side and hiding the tasks and applets side. After clicking on a launcher, the dock would flip back to the side where the tasks and applets are.

It's an interesting idea, but I will take some time to flip the dock, It can be bad for the usability.

augur said:
And what you think about this solution we can see all icons in the same time...

I love this new video, with all the icon.
There is an advantage, if a notification happen, we blur/color/spotlight/anything else the good icon, and in the same time, we scroll the circle, so the user know what icon need attention during he is waiting

topherfangio said:
I like the idea of grouping the icons so that you don't have so many on the dock. You could have common icons set or you could create a group of icons that when scrolled over popped up another dock-like item (much less animated) that would give you access to the other launchers.

StrangeQuark said:
Grouping launchers will be possible (or maybe it already is with the latest version?) with the stacks applet!
You('ll) just have to use a directory with .desktop files as the backend-folder.

AndrewGene said:
Okay I really suck at gimp but just wanted to put these two things together to prove a point. First off just ignore the icons as they are. Say that the white firefox icon in AWN is my media player icon. Then, when that icon is clicked the icon is associated with a certain folder (e.g. Movie folder). Then all of your movies will show up in that circular dock above the media player (in this example the white firefox) icon. Sort of like the stacks folder is now but you actually click on the icon itself.

Sorry, but I don't like these ideas of container or menus/sub-menus.
It's because there are lot of extra click (if we click on the wrong menu for example). There is also the problem that we really don't see all the icon.

searayman said:
I think cover flow woudl solve this problem perfectly.

Yes, but we need use the libglitz librairie, and I don't know how to use it. Does anyone know ?