Kooldock

[aged hippy]

Has anyone managed to get Kooldock to work?

All i get is The program name or command /home/malcolm/.kde/share/apps/kooldock/menu/00_konqueror.desktop cannot be found. Please correct the command or URL and try again type messages.


Edited to add:
I should have said, the icons are in the correct place, if i click on them, they start.

Edited again:
The address which Kooldock passes along to whatever-executes-the-commands is correct; as a trial, i clicked on the Kate icon, it threw up a Sorry message similar to the above, so i copy/pasted that address into Konqueror, which promptly asked me "Do you really want to execute 'file:///home/malcolm/.kde/share/apps/kooldock/menu/03_kate.desktop'?", i clicked Yes and Kate started.

[toad]

Re: Kooldock

I have not managed to get it to work either under KDE4 (get the same error message).

I haven't delved into it yet, though, rather waiting for native KDE4 plasmoids to do the job instead...

But out of interest, you could check whether all the necessary files are available in ~/.kde/share/apps/kooldock/menu/

[aged hippy]

Re: Kooldock

But out of interest, you could check whether all the necessary files are available in ~/.kde/share/apps/kooldock/menu/

.... I may get round to it later....

[toad]

Re: Kooldock

Ha!

Peace and love

[aged hippy]

Re: Kooldock

I just popped across to the http://sourceforge.net/projects/kooldock forum, and posted a message.... well, sort-of copy/pasted what i said here, actually

I'll let you know what response i get, it is most certainly a handy little utility.

[toad]

Re: Kooldock

Nice one aged hippy! Thank you very much

[aged hippy]

Re: Kooldock


.... and don't fret, i'll mark this one Solved ! when it is.

[noelvh]

Re: Kooldock

I played with kooldock back on 7.10 or what ever 7 was. I quickly moved to AWN and have been very happy with that. It is in the reops and works under 8.10.

I think it took me 10 minutes to install, run and setup AWN.

Have a look
search the repos with synaptic not apt and you will find it.
AWN
Avant window navigator
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...LQmgZRm7dCXv-Q
this is a photo of my desktop with AWN running at the bottom.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...k-JHbn4-g2EJHg
Here it is running under Ubuntu with compiz.
Noel Vh

[Snowhog]

Re: Kooldock

But AWN is written for Gnome. Yes, you can install it in KDE, but it brings in a TON of Gnome dependency packages. :P

[toad]

Re: Kooldock

Yeah, I tried AWN and it looks, well, like gnome. Functionality is fine, however.