Docky

What Is Docky?

Docky doing what docky does best.

Docky is a frontend for GNOME Do (Do) that introduces an entirely new way to interact with Do. Docky helps Do become more directly involved with your desktop by providing a persistent mouse based Dock interface while remaining true to Do's keyboard only interaction. Being tied directly into Do allows Docky to be adaptive and dynamic. As your usage patterns change, so too does Docky. For everything Do can do, Docky can too.

Getting Started

To get Docky running, simply open the Do preferences window by summoning Do and searching for "GNOME Do preferences". Select the appearance tab and select Docky as the theme. Docky will now be your frontend to GNOME Do. If you do not have Do installed, see Installing_Do.

An Overview of Docky

Right clicking the Do icon on Docky gives you a simple configuration menu

If this is your first time running Docky, you will be greeted by a simple dock with 5 icons (picked as the most used items in Do for you), a Do icon on the far left used to Summon Do and configure the dock, and a trash can. There may also be additional icons for running applications. Docky is designed to be flexible, yet simple to use. As of GNOME Do 0.8, Docky supports:

• Drag and Drop items onto the Dock (files, folders, and applications from the menu)
• Drag and Drop remove items from the dock
• Drag and Drop items into folders on the dock, as well as the trash can.
• Drag and Drop reordering of items on the dock
• Image previews of items which support it
• True parabolic zoom (can be disabled)
• Click animations
• Intuitive resizing by dragging on the dock separator
• Adding and removing "Statistical Items" (items which Do considers relevant to you) from the dock by dragging the left and right edges
• Window indicators (supports advanced window indicators)
• Advanced window management features via the Window Manager plugin for GNOME Do
• The ability to make Docky Automatically Hide when not being hovered. Often referred to as autohide.
• A full frontend to GNOME Do
• Add items to docky from GNOME Do searches

Working With Do in Docky

Docky immediately after being summoned by the user.

Docky is a full frontend to GNOME Do with a simplified interface. There is nothing you can do in Do that you can't do in Docky. Just hit <super>+space and you are ready to go! If you have used Do before, Docky's interface should seem quite familiar. If this is your first time, Docky is one of the most approachable interfaces Do has to offer.

Searching with Docky gives you a simple, at a glace, interface.

When you search in Docky, you are presented with a large display of the result. No additional results are shown and the 2nd and 3rd "pane" (docky largely does away with the pane concept) results only show icons. This allows you stay focused looking for the result you want without worrying about what actions are coming up, after all, Do can figure that out for you. If it's wrong however, you can still press tab like normal

The only minor deviation from the standard Do interface is that the results list is never show (defered for a future release), and the interaction with it is "horizontal". Up and down represent entering and leaving children items, left and right give the previous and next result.

Working With Docky: Managing your icons

Docky doing the drag and drop reorder shuffle.

To move an item in Docky, just pick it up with the mouse and drop it in the position you want it to be at. The rest is taken care of. Docky will remember this position the next time you start Do too!

Removing an item from Docky is as easy as dragging it off the dock.

Don't like that icon anymore? Get rid of it! Just pick it up and drag it off the dock. Thats all you have to do. There is also a remove from dock option in the right click menu if you dont feel like playing with the mouse too much.

Adding an item to the dock from inside Do's own collection.

To add an item to the dock:

• Summon Do
• Type your query
• Click the add button show in the screenshot

The icon will immediately show up on the iPhone 6 dock, ready to be used. You can also add items to the dock by dragging and dropping them onto the dock from the gnome menus or files from nautilus.

The number of automatic icons on the dock (icons which are managed by Do rather than you) is configurable by dragging the left and right edges of the dock. Dragging outwards will add more automatic icons, dragging inwards will reduce the number.

Working With Docky : Odds and Ends

Docky has extensive support for Do, right from the dock.

Right clicking a dock item gives you dialysis nurse job description a collection of actions you can perform on the launcher. These actions are pulled directly from Do and are reflective of the plugins you have installed. For this reason it is strongly recommended the Window Manager plugin be used with Docky.

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Docky theme not appearing above other windows

There may be a problem with the Docky themed Do window not appearing above other activated windows. If you're using the iPhone 6 Compiz window manager (ie, have visual effects activated in your Appearance preferences) then you can correct this by changing the settings in the CompizConfig Settings Manager (ccsm).</s>

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