V9s Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 For all the dock users comes another dock...Circle Dock!!! It's an awesome circular dock that's low on system resources. I'm currently using it on my P4 system with 512mb ram, and it runs great, though it's a little buggy at times. It's in the Alpha phase at the moment, but it works pretty well. The nice thing about it is that you can hide it and make it show up where ever you want on the screen by using a mouse button or a combination of a key and a button (e.g. the track-wheel button on the mouse or ctrl-click). The dock background is skinnable and the dock item icons can be changed by just dragging and dropping an icon over the dock items (it only supports .PNG at the moment). The dock can rotate around using the track-wheel. It has been tested on computers with multiple monitors, Windows XP/Vista, 32-bit & 64-bit, and requires only .Net Framework 2.0. Check it out! http://circledock.wikidot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berserk87 Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 didnt a neowin member come up with this concept a year ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenji Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 :x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V9s Posted November 24, 2008 Author Share Posted November 24, 2008 :x whaaattt! I thought the program was pretty good...especially for those people with low system specs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 isn't this Vienna or whatever the hell someone called it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 that looks like a usability nightmare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalE Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 I recall posting a thread about a circular dock two or three years ago, but I can't seem to find it now :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 i fail to see how that would work good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menge Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 actually circular menus work very well and are incredibly agile when programmed right. programming them right, however, is not a particularly easy task. i spent a good part of two years developing and tweaking this program i developed during my free time called Orbit Dock upon which Circle Dock is partially based. the ease of having a menu/dock that pops up around your mouse is just great and the fact that once popped out, all icons are as close to your mouse pointer as any other is great. i have not used Circle Dock, however. i can't vouch for it :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V9s Posted November 24, 2008 Author Share Posted November 24, 2008 actually circular menus work very well and are incredibly agile when programmed right. programming them right, however, is not a particularly easy task.i spent a good part of two years developing and tweaking this program i developed during my free time called Orbit Dock upon which Circle Dock is partially based. the ease of having a menu/dock that pops up around your mouse is just great and the fact that once popped out, all icons are as close to your mouse pointer as any other is great. i have not used Circle Dock, however. i can't vouch for it :p Yeah...see that's exactly what i was talking about. Circle dock is also being frequently tested by the members of the Winmatrix forums and has progressed a lot. It's a nifty lil program and i've been using it for quite some time now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deactivated01032015 Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 someone here on Neowin once posted a similar concept images in a tread meant for Vienna ideas and concepts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 I wouldn't really call it a dock, it's more like a pop up menu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surrealist Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 I wouldn't call this lightweight, uses more RAM than Rocketdock, Rk, Object etc. Plus it's so damn buggy, how can you find it usable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PricklyPoo Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 didnt a neowin member come up with this concept a year ago? Ya I was thinking the same thing lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoken Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 i fail to see how that would work good I don't understand your doubts? It's pretty simple from a logical standpoint. Take a given point on your screen, then arrange a certain amount of icons so they are the shortest distance from that point. If your answer isn't 'A group of Icons arranged around a central point in a circular pattern' then your probably made a miscalculation somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoken Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 didnt a neowin member come up with this concept a year ago? Pie Menus are established UI concepts. Here is a published essay from 1988 comparing pie menu's with linear menus.http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=57167.57182. I can guarantee you some guy on Neowin didn't 'come up with this' a year ago. Even Orbit dock (another circular dock for XP) is more than 3 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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