UPDATE: None of this is an issue for me now that pelaird showed me the setting that I was missing in the Accessibility options.
I'm a 20+ year Stardock and Object Desktop supporter. Thank you for all the things you have done to complement and improve the user experience in Windows over the years of your existence!
Brownnosing aside, I would like to recommend and request a behavior feature that is desperately needed in Object Dock...at least in my use case. I recently went from a dual monitor setup to an ultrawide 32:9 monitor. This change has introduced some new use challenges along with amplifying an existing behavior.
This is a screenshot of my current desktop. You can see that I use the dock to provide a button bar of icons across the top of the screen.
There are two Dock issues that I have with my use case.
- The Dock wakes/activates/comes-to-the-top when the mouse cursor touches anywhere along the top of the screen, even if only for a millisecond, even if you touched the screen edge far away from the Dock. This is very frustrating when I'm working nowhere near the Dock in another application window, but when I accidentally touch the top of the screen with my mouse, and the Dock pops-up over all my active windows. Even if I'm in a full screen RDP session, the Dock still raises to the top if my mouse bumps the edge of the screen.
Suggested Change: Only activate the Dock when you hit the edge of the screen where it is located IF you are actually within the area of the Dock. A checkbox option maybe? In other words, the Dock should never wake/activate unless your mouse is within it's boundary area.
- The Dock wakes/activates IMMEDIATELY if the screen edge is touched at all.
Example: My main browser window is typically full screen height in the middle of my screen covering the Dock. More often than not, I go to select a different tab and I bump the top of the screen, my Dock displays, and I click on the Dock icon that's where I was trying to click a tab in the browser. This wasn't as much of an issue with two screens, because most of my "work" was done on the screen where the Dock wasn't located and therefore false activations were not nearly as common.
Suggested Feature: Implement a method that lets the user select a delay that must be met before the Dock wakes/activates. I believe being able to set this delay from 0-1000 milliseconds would be sufficient....just something so that accidental screen edge bumps don't wake/activate the Dock. Maybe a slider, number spinner, or text box?
But wait! I'm not -just- an entitled/whiny user! I'm a 40 year IT veteran with programming capability. If you'd like to implement my suggestions for zero company labor and cost, just make me a temporary unpaid intern and I'll go to town! Have your people call my people.
Thank you for your time.
Bob Templeton - T3chDad