Docking plugin discussion thread

[Fozi]

Hi,

I made a new plugin, Docking. It replaces Miranda's built in docking code and adds an options dialog, so that you can turn off docking and tweak some settings.

Apart from tweaking and the "don't dock between Monitors" feature it doesn't provide anything that the built in code doesn't. My first intentions were to simply be able to turn off docking, because I somtimes messed up my desktop icons by draging the contact list window to the edge of the screen. That was two days ago, but the plugin is fairly simple. ;)

You can get it here: http://addons.miranda-im.org/details...ewfile&id=2241


Edit: I'm working on it again, you can download an Alpha version.

The docking code is completely rewritten. It's much more user friendly, windows compilant and it doesn't mess up your desktop icons (by accident).

If you would like to have something in it, now is the right time to post your ideas. Only docking related stuff please.

Currently working on:
* Autohiding
* Start up behaviour
not yet working on:
* Options dialog
* Incompatibilities
* Bugs, bugs, bugs ;-)


Bugs and comments are welcome,

Fozi.

[Lastwebpage]

Thanks !
I have never understood why this feature is enable by default and no option to disable it, but now.. :)

Peter

[Gatsby]

It's really a nice plugin and works quite fast.

[Christian]

Hey, this is really great and the most useful plugin I know! I've waited so many years to get rid of this damn anoying docking-mode and finally it's done.

Thank you so much!

[andrewabc]

Quick question.
Can this plugin work with behind the edge plugin?
Because currently there are only a couple places I can put the contact list along the outside of the screen, and could be nice if I could put it where I want to.

http://www.miranda-im.org/download/d...ewfile&id=1545

Also, would it work with Snapping windows 0.0.1.8
http://www.miranda-im.org/download/d...iewfile&id=923

Although I'm not an expert on the difference between docking and snapping.
Or at least how docking for miranda would work.

[Fozi]

Quick question.
Can this plugin work with behind the edge plugin?
Because currently there are only a couple places I can put the contact list along the outside of the screen, and could be nice if I could put it where I want to.

http://www.miranda-im.org/download/d...ewfile&id=1545

Also, would it work with Snapping windows 0.0.1.8
http://www.miranda-im.org/download/d...iewfile&id=923

Although I'm not an expert on the difference between docking and snapping.
Or at least how docking for miranda would work.

The three plugins seem to work nicely together, allthough you don't really have to have them all enabled once you decide whether you would like to use docking, snapping or hiding. Actually, I'm using the docking plugin to disable docking and the snapping plugin to snap to the screen edge.

And, oh yes, try my Ghostify plugin if you would like to get room on your desktop without hiding the contact list.

I don't really want to implement functionality that is allready in another plugin, you could kindly ask the "Behind the edge" plugin's author to make it work for more points. But I'll check if I can implement the vanilla autohiding feature. It's not gonna be the same that "Behind the edge" does, though.

Yo,

Fozi.

[Lastwebpage]

BTW,
can someone tell my why not all this features are in one plugin?
I think the "overhead" for unused options are not very large...

And why not delete this "snapping" code from the core?

Peter

[feedback]

BTW,
can someone tell my why not all this features are in one plugin?
I think the "overhead" for unused options are not very large...

And why not delete this "snapping" code from the core?

Peter

I agree. IMO all these plugins that interact with the desktop should be merged.

[Lastwebpage]

One more:
DL Site: Docking 0.1.0.0
Pluginlist/Versionsinfo: docking.dll - Docking [0.0.1.0]

This make problems with the updater plugin...

Peter

[lhdal]

Nice plugin.

Can it be modified so that it can dock in desktop environments like Litestep?

Here is my post on the subject:
http://forums.miranda-im.org/showthr...light=litestep