Circle Dock


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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/

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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