Wow, this is convenient, I was just thinking about making one of these myself. Thanks for getting the ball rolling, now I can post a bit- I mean request list. Anywho, grab a drink and relax cause this is a bigun (sorry).
1) Better right-click support all over the board. I'd like to have right clicks on icons in my taskbar on Objectdock bring up the same list of options as a right click on Windows' taskbar. If I want more, I can turn em on, but as it stands there are two extra options and two rows of blanks added to a right click, which I find really obvnoxious.
The start menu could also use some better right clicking, ANY right clicking. The Folder:programs link doesn't always open the right folder and it takes up extra space (There can be two versions of a folder in the Start Menu, one for the active user and one for all users. The Folder: link only opens one.) Again, I'd really like to see a right-click both on the start button itself and within start menu items that functions the same way as the default Windows' right click.
2) Resolution specific dock placement. I normally run at 1280x1024. Diablo II runs at 800x600. This means that the docks I have centered at the top and bottom of my screen get moved to the left whenever I run Diablo, requiring me to move them back whenver I quit (same goes for Dos games played through DOSBox). If Objectdock stored the dock positions for each resolution separately, then this wouldn't be a problem. Whenever the resolution changed, a new set of positions would be used and so normal settigns wouldn't get screwed up. I hate having to recenter my docks whenever I play a game with a lower resolution.
3) Not sure if this is solveable, but I cannot use Objectdock how I'd like to because of incompatibilites with other software. Specifically, I can't use the nifty zooming docks because they prevent ATI Mediacenter from displaying an image. I've fiddled around with this and I think this is because the zooming docks use the transparency effect, which takes the same video slot in Windows that ATI needs to do its throughview effects (you can see the image through all your open windows, very nifty). Tabbed docks don't have this problem since they cannot go transparent. Is it possible to completely shut off the transparency effect when I set transparency to 0 (freeing up the slot for other apps), or would this require a complete rewrite of the code for drawing zooming docks?
4) Others have probably experienced this and I don't think it's really anything Stardock can do, but I'll mention it anyways. While every other app I have works just peachy with the latest version of Objectdock's systray, the Steam icon (for Valve's software) cannot right-click (the right clicking again!). When I right-click, I get a flash of the menu, then it goes away immediately. This is kind of annoying since I can only shut down Steam from the systray or the task manager. Steam is a very poorly designed piece of softare, and it takes up a ton of resources to boot, more than DesktopX with 1 object and 2 widgets, CursorXP, Windowsblinds, and Objectdock COMBINED, and Steam doesn't even do anything for me except launch Half Life. I really would like to be able to close this atrocious app without resorting to the Task Manager, but since this problem seems to be Valve's fault and not Stardock's, I don't know if there's anything that can be done at this end.
Yeah, that was kinda long. I really like Objectdock, but the fact that I still find myself occasionally frustrated by a clunky design isn't good. Won't stop me from using it, but still, these issues (first two anyways) really need to be addressed). Thanks for reading this whole damn thing.
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