Thanks for the comments corky.
1. Your either not understanding the main point, or not responding to it. There is no reason for it to cause un necessary problems for both being on the bottom. To avoid un-necessary problems and at least enable this without problems:
With the taskbar turned off, it should fully replace it right at the bottom (connected with point 3).
With the taskbar on, by default have the dock shift up above the taskbar approx 1cm to avoid the clash.
2. This is pretty bad, and connected with point 1. Users are quite forced really to have the dock on the top first of all presently due to point 1. So with the dock on the top, the user is forced to experience icons, and downloaded files hiding behind the dock, sometimes extremely difficult to see or move. This needs to be fixed.
3. First of all yes it should have always been called programs list or similar, as that is what it is. It is not the start menu and misses most of its functionality. Even just as a programs list it duplicates on the start menu programs list, which actually shows 3 columns, is a little more user friendly, deeming it pointless.
It should be full start menu button, so then the user is not forced to have a taskbar with icons, taskbar entries, and largely the same again at the top (forced also point 1).
In the meantime as a temporary measure, is this possible with Brico Pack Crystal XP, because the information description and screen shot suggests so maybe!????
Having system tray entries in the taskbar really should be in the basic package also for these and other reasons noted here. The user is forced to keep the bottom windows taskbar merely just for the start menu, and system tray. Running programs and program icons are all given by the dock and better, so it is a waste of space.
Users should at least be given this option, afterall it is for those whom really love the dock, it has icons and taskbar entries for runnings items and more, so does most of what the bottom windows taskbar does anyway. It therefore and for other reasons, is not an advanced feature.
So some users will want to really benefit from from the dock and have it or the bottom taskbar, instead of an un necessary mish mash, and duplication.
4. With due respect, your not really responding directly to the point. There is no point in installing a dock with a recycle bin icon if it is not replacing the desktop recycle bin, it is un-necessary duplication and cluttering of the desktop.
5. Working ok now fingers crossed, thanks!
6. Again your not responding directly to the problem. When a user installs another browser and/or mail client, they can set it as default, it then replaces the previous defaults, be they IE and Outlook or otherwise, in the start menu, all internet related files, icons and more.
With ObjectDock this is not the case, it flat out ignores the users setting of internet browser and email client programs, and replaces them with 2 they didnt have in theyre start menu due to defaults being reset, probably didnt have on their desktop, didnt use at all, and were not the programs they used for those tasks.
Not only this, but when a user is forced to manually remove and replace with the proper default programs (say Firefox & Thunderbird) the icons are not set right, the user has to download icons and set them (this applies to taskbar items to such as running browser page entries). This needs to be corrected.
I'll give this topic awhile longer to see what others say, and will then mail the objectdock directly. Thanks.
