Thank You for 2.0!

Published on March 30, 2010 By Mirsguy In ObjectDock

I for one wish to thank Brad, Jeff and whoever else was involved in getting ObjectDock 2.0 to the point where it could be released! I just downloaded it and am very excited about it!

I also wanted to thank the team for a couple of specific things:

1. Thank you for the new True stretch feature. Without this feature (like in 1.9) docks pictured below would look choppy, but now they are smooth.

2. A personal thank you for including the Caliginous dock with the program. I am honored to have been able to contribute here. That was one of my earliest docks.

One thing that I believe is necessary is to natively include the Stacks docklet. I already have it saved, so it's not a big deal to just copy it over; but it would be nice to not have to.

Comments (Page 1)

Mirsguy

on Mar 30, 2010

Okay, so the Start Menu "works," but is not very pretty...

Running W7 Pro x64.

This is how the Start Menu is supposed to look:

And this is how it looks when using the Start menu launcher in the dock:

This happens with every WindowBlinds skin that I have tried.

missoctavia

on Mar 30, 2010

I also want to thanks the Stardock team. Unfortunately, I also have the Start menu problem.

Mirsguy

on Mar 30, 2010

I am extatic to be able to use the system tray dock again!

One small request: The icons can only be shrunk to 32 pixels. Any way we can go smaller on that? Sys tray icons usually look crappy at larger sizes, even at 32.

JMB1984

on Mar 30, 2010

Mirsguy: And I'm honored that you choose to create such great skins for our dock program! You're correct, dock icons should be able to go down to 16x16 for systray purposes ; mod made for next update.

Regarding the right panel of the start menu... sadly this might be the reality. Unless I figure out some way to hack it further, when moved even a pixel from its original location, something is hardcoded into the new Win7 start menu where the background no longer draws on the right half of the start menu Hopefully this doesn't make it totally useless, but this is something I've seen in any other start menu mover tool I've found.

RedneckDude

on Mar 30, 2010

Where is it? I don't have mine!

bk13GarbageMan

on Mar 30, 2010

Where is it? I don't have mine!

Same here!

NetaholicsAnonymous

on Mar 30, 2010

It was worth the wait. Three cheers to all involved.
Thank you to all involved.

NetaholicsAnonymous

on Mar 30, 2010

Dang double post

Jeff T

on Mar 30, 2010

bk13GarbageMan

on Mar 30, 2010

Just a thought, might it have something to do with the Win7 start menu being able to expand?

Mirsguy

on Mar 30, 2010

Regarding the right panel of the start menu... sadly this might be the reality.

Okay, then here's an "outside the box" idea:

For one, I've always thought it was hokey to have your start menu just kind of pop up above your dock when using a launcher. Just my opinion. I think it looks wierd when out of place (ie- normal windows position).

What if, instead of the actual start menu, there were a type of start menu launcher that displays your start menu items, without displaying the actual start menu? Half similar maybe to the W7 jump lists or something.

Don't even know if it's possible, just thought I'd throw that out there.

Mirsguy

on Mar 30, 2010

Just a thought, might it have something to do with the Win7 start menu being able to expand?

Fred, you're smarter than you let on!

The expanded start menu state (from the docklet) looks just fine. But looks crappy again when it reverts back to normal size.

NetaholicsAnonymous

on Mar 30, 2010

RedneckDude

reply 5

Where is it? I don't have mine!

bk13GarbageMan

reply 6

Where is it? I don't have mine!

Same here!

It should be in Impulse. As soon as I received the email that my card was run through I went to impulse and it was there.

bk13GarbageMan

on Mar 30, 2010

Okay, then here's an "outside the box" idea:

For one, I've always thought it was hokey to have your start menu just kind of pop up above your dock when using a launcher. Just my opinion. I think it looks wierd when out of place (ie- normal windows position).

What if, instead of the actual start menu, there were a type of start menu launcher that displays your start menu items, without displaying the actual start menu? Half similar maybe to the W7 jump lists or something.

Don't even know if it's possible, just thought I'd throw that out there.

I guess I think outside of the box too....I've thought about the same thing, We really don't need the menu, just the stuff on it!

bk13GarbageMan

on Mar 30, 2010

Fred, you're smarter than you let on!

The expanded start menu state (from the docklet) looks just fine. But looks crappy again when it reverts back to normal size.

So, it sounds like a promising place to start hacking around.........

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