panels at bottom - magnfy like mac os?

[ryanbadgley]

hi, I've been using linux/KDE for a couple of months now and i was thinking of venturing further into the desktop environment. as you can see in the screenshot, i have all the icons i want in my taskbar (dont worry thats not actually the "click'n'run" program from linspire :P) and i have an external taskbar at the top of my screen thet dissapears after a couple of second. i have everything i want except one thing. a lot of screenshots i've seen have a panel at the bottom and the icons magnify as your mous moves along. if there's any way to do that under kde, it would be greatly appreciated if someone told me how. there have been one or two other posts about this, but their outdated and the links dont work. i'm also not afraid to do a bit of extra work if necessary. thanks

[klerfayt]

Re: panels at bottom - magnfy like mac os?

sudo apt-get install kxdocker kxdocker-data

oh wait, it's broken in feisty - kxdocker_conf.xml is empty file

[ryanbadgley]

Re: panels at bottom - magnfy like mac os?

ok i'll keep looking around but if anyone finds anything, please let me know.
i'll post back here if i find the answer.

[Fintan]

Re: panels at bottom - magnfy like mac os?

This might work:
http://ksmoothdock.sourceforge.net/

I think it is also in the repos.

otherwise have a look at:
http://www.kde-look.org

[eriefisher]

Re: panels at bottom - magnfy like mac os?

You might want to have a look at the Engage Dock. It comes stock with Enlightment but you can also get the stand alone package.

http://pimpyourlinux.com/linux-featu...t-engage-dock/




Edit: I just tried to get it and got a 404 error

[ryanbadgley]

Re: panels at bottom - magnfy like mac os?

thanks so much guys. the "ksmoothdock" is exactly what i needed and was a breeze to install. i just followed the instructions on the website and i had it working in no time. i hope this post will help someone else in the future as well