Show HN: Docking – Extensible Linux dock in Python | Better HN

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18 comments

proxysna1mo ago

heuh https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=docking

szszrk1mo ago

Words have many meanings and we somehow don't change old ones because someone used them in dirty context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking_and_berthing_of_spacec...

edumucelliOP1mo ago

Haha, I am not native speaker as you can imagine. The idea here is more of a space ship/rocket docking into a base.

proxysna1mo ago

Hehe, yeah i understand, just something that popped up. Great project!

jitl1mo ago

X11 only is a bit of a bummer although I’m not surprised - i don’t think i’d target Wayland either for this sort of thing if i was a happy x11 user already.

yjftsjthsd-h1mo ago

I'm actually curious about that - this seems like something that should at least partially work through XWayland? Blindly speculating, it might not work against existing windows, but I'd expect things like system monitors and launching apps to not care.

edumucelliOP1mo ago

To be honest, I am not sure, I will be working on those as the next big thing for Docking. I am uncertain of how much I can achieve on Wayland. Looking forward.

edumucelliOP1mo ago

Tested today, most of it works using XWayland. Some applets won't like windows killer as it uses xkill, also some feature like window preview as Wayland do not give access to other screens, but also features like having the dock follow the mouse across different monitors.

edumucelliOP1mo ago

Yes, indeed. The next I will be working with is Wayland. Let's see how hard that will be. I am sure there will be applet that I will never be able to port like Window killer that users xkill, etc.

h1fra1mo ago

very cool project with a very unfortunate name

edumucelliOP1mo ago

The rocket docking into a base was the meaning, regardless of the other usages :-)

acrophiliac1mo ago

Error installing from .deb: Dependency is not satisfiable: python 3.10. So I have to downgrade from 3.12 to use this?

edumucelliOP1mo ago

I have a tentative fix on the way https://github.com/edumucelli/docking/commit/7ddcdeae42e8277... -- the deb file will be arch specific now as well

edumucelliOP1mo ago

Thanks, I will fix that one and get back to you

nsonha1mo ago

You have a customizable bar in your DE, put everything you need into that bar, why a second bar?

edumucelliOP1mo ago

I do not have a bar that I can put everything I want, so I created it, as many other developers have created a dock bar, just like MacOS has its own, etc, et.

nsonha1mo ago

MacOS has a dock because the menu bar it has is useless. Very few Windows users install this kind of dock app because the taskbar is NOT useless. On Linux, most DEs allow you to customize the bar. I use quickshell and gnome, but kde or polybar same.

People make software to bloat other people's computers, that's true

functionmouse1mo ago

lollll

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