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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: the next step on the desktop
From:       Jeffery MacEachern <j.maceachern () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-02-04 9:38:29
Message-ID: AANLkTim8d7bD6O6JYWf5GrkgHzMZBPd7761PTU1ENkG6 () mail ! gmail ! com
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> > i don't think there's been a lot of critical thinking about dock usage.
> > in   fact, the mac dock was roundly criticized when it came out by
> > usability folks.   i'm not dead set against a dock, but i am against
> > doing something because it's   a trend. and with docks, that's what we
> > have here.
> I'm really, really against docks. Mac has constructed their complete workflow \
> around the dock system. Their window system supports it - our dosn't. The best we \
> can get is a bad copy and we can do better. Let's not copy the dock but make tasks \
> bar better.

+1
Aside from any notions of "copying" or otherwise, I don't believe that
any design is Perfect, and so even if a dock was good and desirable,
I'd prefer to see if KDE can innovate and produce something better
still.

  - Jeffery MacEachern

> Cheers
> Martin
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