Show HN: Docking – Extensible Linux dock in Python

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26 points | by edumucelli 4 days ago ago

18 comments

  • proxysna 2 days ago ago
  • jitl 2 days ago 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.

    • edumucelli 17 hours ago 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.

    • linzhangrun 15 hours ago ago

      Some relatively aggressive mainstream modern distributions — such as Fedora — have already gone fully Wayland. That is a problem.

    • yjftsjthsd-h 2 days ago 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.

      • edumucelli 17 hours ago 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.

  • h1fra 2 days ago ago

    very cool project with a very unfortunate name

    • edumucelli 17 hours ago ago

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

  • acrophiliac 2 days ago ago

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

  • nsonha a day ago ago

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

    • edumucelli 17 hours ago 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.

      • nsonha 13 hours ago 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

  • functionmouse 2 days ago ago

    lollll