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gavintlgold
August 30th, 2007, 05:54 PM
If you've compiled kiba-dock (which i recommend!) then you might have seen the stacks feature. If not, enable it in kiba-settings and drag a picture to the dock (But not too close to the trash, if it disappears, it's in the trash). Then drag a bunch of other pictures on top.

Middle click the stack and they will all appear. However, there is no animation. This is easily fixed though.

Add (type=Dock) & (name=kiba-dock) to the open and close animation list (then put them at the top by moving them up) and choose fold as the animation, with about 500 as the values.

Now when you middle click your stacks will unfold. Very cool! (not quite as neat as the OS X Leopard animation, but good enough :P )

Of course kiba-dock is very buggy, but it's better than you might have experienced before. Give it a whirl! (I would even say it's better than Avant if you turn off the physics.)

svn co https://kibadock.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kibadock/trunk kiba

Installation is the standard, with autogen.sh ... There are two dependencies for some plugins, but they are easily findable in synaptic in ubuntu (you need the -dev versions).

gavintlgold
August 30th, 2007, 05:55 PM
Oh, and this does the same effect for the clock calendar view. The dock, however does not unfold, luckily.

delfick
September 1st, 2007, 04:24 AM
hmmm, every once in a while i update kiba and install again, i've seen the stacks in the preferences window for a while now but it never appears on the dock when i activate it...

I'll try again when i get some time...

oh yeah, can you post a screenshot please ?? :D thnx

(and have you seen stacks for avant-window-navigator??)