Andrew McCall wrote:
Really? It did change from the DR releases though. You might be over stating that "hate" slightly :-)I have *always* had a major problem with the deskbar ever since thevery early days of BeOS.
Surely you can set "Stay on top". If not, that would be a feature to implement :-). And if the space taken is an issue, dock it as in "start menu" or "finder".If you are using an applicaiton and maximize it to full screen, it covers the deskbar, meaning it requires more clicks to complete a process than it would on OSX/Gnome/KDE/Windows.
I seem to remember QNX's Photon UI got around this by reserving the whole of the left side of the screen for its version of the deskbar, so applications that were maximized would be 600x480 rather than 640x480 for example, but this seems a bit of a waste.
The BeOS pre-PR used a full side "dock" (calles "Browser" I believe) ala Photon. It was a little funky in use, but it did pretty much what you suggest. IMO, I don't think that going that route is a step "forward" though. A quick Google got me these images (of historical BeOS, random versions):
http://www.samag.ru/art/12.2005/84-88+BeOS%20history.files/image004.gif http://www.samag.ru/art/12.2005/84-88+BeOS%20history.files/image002.gif http://www.bebox.nu/images/audio1.jpg http://www.bebox.nu/images/bebox/ppc/osnabruck/bebox_full.jpgObviously you might be thinking something slightly different, but I always loved the fact that Deskbar *was* so simple and didn't go OTT with features and baggage.
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