We'll, being such a supporter of Object Dock, Plus has some issues I'm really not happy with that bother me a good bit.
Allllllll of it has to do with these new tabs. In my desktop picture you might notice something...the tab dock is expanding. Why isn't this possible? Of course firstly I'm not against the tabs, but what bothers me is the tabbed docks do not expand. I look at the description of Object Dock and what it has always been like, "ObjectDock is a program that allows you to have a nice animated launchbar/taskbar on your screen that reacts to your mouse when you mouse over it."
Well these tabbed docks do nothing to react to your mouse short of displaying the name, no expanding, no magnifying of the icons, no real room to expand like the original. This so seems to hurt the purpose of it to me, yes the tab's are really nice hiding out of the way until you mouse over, but when it shows the icons in that tab they don't enlarge when you hover over them. This makes them kind of hard to see naturally, though if you make the icons always big you can see them easy, except.....now you've got giant icons in your face everytime you expand, and then you run out of room and cant even see them all at once since it doesn't expand to the amount you have like the normal one. Instead it's replaced by a + sign? So now I have to cycle through and through to get to something I need at times.
2nd is the inability to have the tab dock show running tasks like the normal dock, or even better, a tab just for "running tasks." So basically what I end up with from these tabs that should heavily increase orginization, and make things less cluttered I get to have 2 docks. A tabbed dock for launching programs, and a normal dock for currently running programs. Then to keep things from getting more cluttered, and in my way over other buttons or switches from other programs, one HAS to be hidden.
Well the fun doesn't stop there, now instead of Kk menu being "integrated", not to mention more friendly to use(this might just be my personal feelings), we get flyout menus. These rediculously neat thingys that often get hard to navigate, or because you stray 1 pixel too far, close up and retreat back to the tab. Then you might think, "oh, well these icons in the flyout look ugly, lets change them".......oh wait, these aren't dependant on Object Dock, but actual icon files. Now that wouldn't be a problem if I just change the icons, but oh yeah, only "some" can normally be changed, so I'd have to get ANOTHER 3rd party program for that........more programs purchased, more resources consumed, more performance suffers, more headaches endured.
So in short, keep the tabbed docks, make them work like the other docks (current running program tab? adjusts to amount of items in dock?), don't make me HAVE to have more than 1 dock if I want to use tabs, make flyouts not cause peoples eyes to bug out, AND WHERE'S MY INTEGRATED KK MENU!!
Other than that, weeeeee love the features, I just want 1 dock, with tabs, that expands accordingly, magnify's icons, and shows currently running apps without a seperate dock.
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