HiQDock - fixes and improvements

[hey68you]

Following up on this old app and thread at ( HiQDock ... New Dock coming soon ) …
I’m happy to announce a new version of HiQDock that fixes a big issue - the dock options window was blank and also the “Change Icon Image” window was blank.

Moreover, thanks to @3dEyes’s great work in creating the hviftools, all icons are now smoothly scaled.
(Technically: this means that as soon as you add a new launcher, the icon is displayed without pixelation as it was in previous versions of the HiQDock) - you can still replace the icon launcher with a custom image (.svg or .png) - simply place any custom icons you want to use in ‘’/boot/home/config/settings/HiQDockIcons" folder.

Download the package here: hiqdock-distro/hiqdock-1.0.1-1-x86_64.hpkg at main · hey68you/hiqdock-distro · GitHub

Important known issue that I haven’t fixed yet:

You MUST make sure in your Qt6 Configurator that “QML” is set to “Use Software 2d context renderer” as in this screenshot. (otherwise the HiQDock app will crash)

[hey68you]

For some reason when the HiQDock is running on Haiku that is running in a VM (QEMU/UTM) - tried on Linux Zorin host and on MacOSX UTM host, the click and drag isn’t working to move the launchers to new locations
…works fine on real hardware

[hey68you]

okay Gemini helped:

On UTM:

Change the pointing device / input mode from USB Tablet (or VirtIO Tablet) to PS/2 Mouse or USB Mouse.

On Zorin (Ubuntu)

If using Virt-Manager, open VM Details > EvTouch USB Graphics Tablet (or Tablet input) > Remove the device, then add a standard USB Mouse input device instead.