Bug 1133

Summary:	dockbarx, a GNOME 2 panel applet that combines taskbar and application launchers
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Denis Prost <denis.prost>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	denis.prost, marja11, olav, tarakbumba
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	dockbarx	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Denis Prost 2011-05-04 15:19:56 CEST

dockbarx, whose home page is here :
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/DockbarX?content=101604
is a GNOME 2 panel applet that combines taskbar and application launchers. It is the most efficient way I found to use as few panel space as possible while having all the functionalities of taskbar and launchers, and even more : drag and drop to grouped windows is very easy while it does not exist with gnome taskbar, and you can have nice window previews if you use compiz.

Some people will say that GNOME 2 belongs to the past. I don't agree ! I think GNOME 3, as it is, is far from being as efficient as GNOME 2 for a professionnal usage and I guess there will be a long time before - if ever - all people switch to GNOME 3.

Denis Prost 2011-05-24 21:12:03 CEST

CC: (none) => denis.prost

Marja Van Waes 2011-10-12 20:04:37 CEST

CC: (none) => marja11
Summary: dockbarx package request => dockbarx, a GNOME 2 panel applet that combines taskbar and application launchers

Marja Van Waes 2011-11-10 12:53:46 CET

Source RPM: (none) => dockbarx

Marja Van Waes 2012-01-01 17:48:17 CET

Hardware: i586 => All

Comment 1 Olav Vitters 2012-01-02 10:07:31 CET

There is no GNOME 2 in Mageia Cauldron. I'll take this up on the Mageia developers list for a discussion.

CC: (none) => olav

Comment 2 Denis Prost 2012-01-03 16:15:04 CET

There is the mate project here :
http://matsusoft.com.ar/projects/mate/index.en.html
that tries to keep gnome 2 alive, but I don't know if it's mature enough to be included in Mageia 2.

Comment 3 Olav Vitters 2012-01-03 16:24:14 CET

I know, but I focus on GNOME, not MATE. Not much conclusion yet from mageia-dev. I was just wondering for a policy btw. If there is none, then I'll leave this bug open. I just don't like open bugs in case we know we're never going to package it.

Comment 4 Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2014-02-08 00:38:52 CET

It seems there is no GNOME port for this and it is incompatible with our MATE 1.6
Closing this report as OLD.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => tarakbumba
Resolution: (none) => OLD