Thanks - hopefully sometime tomorrow
@bullfrog if youāre on 32bit machine, you can already get it from besly depot ā¦ if youāre on 64bit youāll have to wait a little ā trying to get it published ASAPā¦itās working on my 64bit VM, so no need to worry 
Be warned: As I say to everyone on this post - it really only works nicely in āauto - hideā mode which is NOT the default setting!
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@extrowerk no need yet to update qt5 (works fine still with qt4)ā¦ I will have to update to qt5 to get some new/better features working
There are some things i donāt like in HiQDock:
- apple like theme (i know, reskinnable)
- effects (why?)
- fake-transparency (i know, compositiong)
- Qt
- closed source
- no native Icon support
- it doesnāt integrates well with Haiku
This is enough to make HiQDock no-go for me.
So I would better like to see improvements in LaunchBox. It is nice, but could get some love, like auto-hide function, auto-glue to workspace-border, folder-Icon support, easier icon add-remove functionality, auto-centering at resolution-changes, etc.
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Then donāt use itā¦ Iād rather it was native and open source but thatās the developerās bussiness.
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If you read right, he said that He will open the source later. And Yes Launcher are things for users. He can not make it for All perfect. Good work and dont stop development hey68you.
Would have been nice if you could also come to the BeGeistert
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BeGeistert is going to turn out to be an ultimate hack-fest, I can feel it comingā¦
I donāt know about anyone else, but just keep me stocked up on Weissbier and Iāll write whatever code the community wants. 8o)
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In Hamburg we have Pils, and not Bayern weiss Bier, sorry
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Uh ohā¦ Guess Iāll just have to have you guys educate me when I get there!
Ahemā¦ /me doesnāt do alcoholā¦ My great grandpaw was a bootlegger but since then weāve been dry for nearly 100 yearsā¦ it would be cool to have an Southeastern USA Haiku meetup someday maybe in Charlotte or Atlanta.
I wonder if Haiku dock would make it into R2 perhaps as an optional interface etcā¦dunno I think a Native version might fair better at that goal?
Hi Everyone,
First and foremost - Love and Peace to all of us - to each his ownā¦and enjoy the BeGeistert!!
Just to confirm I do plan to open source thisā¦ I was just waiting for Haiku to have window compositing (transparency) because the app really is a hack without it ā I guess I will have to re-think this plan.
Regarding ānativeā - my HiQDock is a hybrid Qt/Haiku app - probably only one or a few such in the world that I know ofā¦ I use Qt/QML because of the cool and easy-to-implement Animations, as well as the ease of using other image formats for the launchers like .svg. But all the āback-endā is native Haiku (Be) APIs - if fact the code would not run on other platforms (as is).
Please post screen shots if youāre using the HiQDock on Beta especially with non-stock icons, etc.
All the best to you all.
heyā¦
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HiQDock 64 now available over our repository server under āHaiku PM 64bitā
Please add our repo with the terminal to the HaikuDepot!
type in the terminal >> pkgman add-repo http://software.besly.de/repo <<
For 64BIT type in the terminal >> pkgman add-repo http://software.besly.de/repo64 <<
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Well at least I know what Iāll be doing tomorrow after I install Haiku on my new laptop when it is delivered. 
Only a short feedback.
I have successfully installed the dock in the 64bit version in Haiku R1B1 running on Virtualbox (Windows host)
It works fine so far.
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tnx for this great dock! Iāve installed on x64 and put it under heavy testing and I see several bugs, but this is so damned cool already 
One question: how can I send you a bug report? Do you have a bug tracking platform somewhere? Do you prefer a more direct feedback?
In the meantime, I collect below
1: when the dock is open (mouseover) and you switch to another workspace using the keyboard shortcut, part of the previous desktop is still retained on screen (i guess itās something related to transparent windows hack).
The same happens here and there when you switch the focus between the active applications (on the same workspace, this time)
Auto-hide is enabled
The screenshot below should help better understand the issue.
2: Second bug is about the Trashcan, which doesnāt workā¦but I guess you know already
3: This is the most annoying one I must admit. Dunno if itās a bug or a choice. Itās about the active application losing the focus when you inadvertently move the mouse into the dock active area. When you move again the mouse to leave the active zone, the previously active application wonāt regain the focus anymore.
I think your needs are pretty much covered with LnLauncher. One of the first things I add to any Haiku install, and I have no use for Lauchbox which I think should be moved to a separate package.
Thanks for great feedback.
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Problem 1 is yes related to transparency hack, so in auto-hide mode you have to take mouse out of dock area to make it hide and then the background should ārefreshā to the that of the current workspace. But I canāt really fix it, so thatās youāre only work-around.
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Trash icon not working for you? It works for me. What happens when you run this in the terminal?:
open /boot/trash -
I canāt reproduce this issue (in either auto-hide mode or not) - are you holding any other keys or mouse buttons at the same time?
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Perhaps Iāve not used it in the proper way. I thought it works like the one in OSX (you can drag a file or folder on it to put it into the trashcan)
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To reproduce:
- open a browser windows(Web+ or Otter, should be the same), click on the address bar like you would change the URL, then move the mouse to the dockās active area to make it appears. If you move the mouse away, the dock disappear but if you try to trype some keys, youāll find that the address bar has not regained the focus.
The same if you use keys or mouse wheel to scroll a page
- Drag and Drop not supported yet
ā¦ I need to upgrade the code to use qt5 (which has native haiku Drag and Drop support) instead of qt4 which does notā¦ I agree this is a high/top priority to a have the proper UX 
Edit: Drag and drop works within the dock to move launchers around to different positions in the row (most right and most left i.e. Tracker and Trash are locked in position like MacOSX dock)
- The Web+ example works for me and so does the scroll example (Iām working on Virtual Box, but tried on real machine too non-64bit and both cases work for me) ???
I look forward to giving this a try. Launch-Pad does not seem to be in the depot. Dockbert has more items than I want. Iām very pleased with LnLauncher for now.