What is the status bar dock at bottom of this zDesk video

[AtariSociety]

I like this status bar style docky at the bottom left of this zDesk video.

Is this a 3rd party app I can use with Mint system on say a Firebee?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBBYCUf3XbQ

I have also seen square icon boxes at the bottom of some Atari videos (like NeXTSTEP) and wondered what that app or docky is.

TJ

[Rajah Lone]

http://the.zorro.free.fr/ztask.html

This version need 68881 processor, so this archive doesn't work. I see the sources besides, and wonder why a recompilation for ColdFire hasn't been done yet. I'll try to do it myself this week-end.

[Rajah Lone]

Well, it was quick with gcc-cross-compilation under Xcode/MacOSX... and it seems to work fairly on my FireBee.

Please use it at your own risk. I'm not a C guy, just a GFA coder. Sources are provided: Makefile and debug.c were modified.

[joska]

I have also seen square icon boxes at the bottom of some Atari videos (like NeXTSTEP) and wondered what that app or docky is.

You mean something like this?

taskbar.jpg

This is an upcoming version of Taskbar.

[AtariSociety]

Joska, yes love it!

What desktop are you using here? Thing? Teradesk? Other?

Can the taskbar be pinned to right or left side rather than at bottom?

Btw, with a running app from the taskbar, how do you know the app is running or in background? Does the taskbar icon change or ?

Very cool!

TJ

[wongck]

You mean something like this?

Whoa, Joska ... Nice mono theme desktop you got there.
The wall paper is Pacman (could also be minion) ?

And that new taskbar looks fantastic.

[joska]

What desktop are you using here? Thing? Teradesk? Other?

It's Teradesk. The icons can be found here. The same icons are used in Taskbar.

Can the taskbar be pinned to right or left side rather than at bottom?

Not yet.

Btw, with a running app from the taskbar, how do you know the app is running or in background? Does the taskbar icon change or ?

Take another look at the screenshot

[joska]

Well, it was quick with gcc-cross-compilation under Xcode/MacOSX... and it seems to work fairly on my FireBee.

I just tried it under XaAES on my Firebee. It seems to be using 8-9% CPU constantly, which IMO is way too much for such a tool.

[OL]

Well, it was quick with gcc-cross-compilation under Xcode/MacOSX... and it seems to work fairly on my FireBee.

I just tried it under XaAES on my Firebee. It seems to be using 8-9% CPU constantly, which IMO is way too much for such a tool.

Yes Ztask use a very small timer in evnt_multi() this is why it load so many the system.

Olivier

[simonsunnyboy]

I have also seen square icon boxes at the bottom of some Atari videos (like NeXTSTEP) and wondered what that app or docky is.

You mean something like this?

taskbar.jpg

This is an upcoming version of Taskbar.

Would a backport to 16color EGA palette and 32x32 pxiels size be possible? Those look great and I think they would work nicely in 32x32 too...

[joska]

Would a backport to 16color EGA palette and 32x32 pxiels size be possible? Those look great and I think they would work nicely in 32x32 too...

The icons are not mine. Taskbar itself can handle icons of "any" (within the limitations of the AES) size. You can use the 32x32 version (which already exists) of the icons in my screenshot, no problem.

[OL]

I like this status bar style docky at the bottom left of this zDesk video.

Is this a 3rd party app I can use with Mint system on say a Firebee?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBBYCUf3XbQ

I have also seen square icon boxes at the bottom of some Atari videos (like NeXTSTEP) and wondered what that app or docky is.

TJ

Or something like this:

yopla.jpg

[mdivancic]

Where does one find the stuff to do the cool 3D windows and stuff?

[joska]

Where does one find the stuff to do the cool 3D windows and stuff?

The screenshots shows XaAES and MyAES. So you need one of these

http://wiki.sparemint.org
http://myaes.lutece.net

[mdivancic]

Where does one find the stuff to do the cool 3D windows and stuff?

The screenshots shows XaAES and MyAES. So you need one of these

http://wiki.sparemint.org
http://myaes.lutece.net

I'm running XaAES on my MiNT installation, but haven't been able to find much on this part of the system.

[joska]

I'm running XaAES on my MiNT installation, but haven't been able to find much on this part of the system.

Which part are you referring to? My screenshot is showing plain XaAES on a truecolour screen. Olivier's screenshot is showing MyAES in truecolour. Maybe you're using 16 or 256 colours? Both XaAES and MyAES will look a lot "flatter" in lesser colour depths.

[mdivancic]

I'm running XaAES on my MiNT installation, but haven't been able to find much on this part of the system.

Which part are you referring to? My screenshot is showing plain XaAES on a truecolour screen. Olivier's screenshot is showing MyAES in truecolour. Maybe you're using 16 or 256 colours? Both XaAES and MyAES will look a lot "flatter" in lesser colour depths.

Both have 3D window gadgets and 3D themes for the desktop, not the standard one I'm running. Basically I'm asking where you got the theme from?

[calimero]

Would a backport to 16color EGA palette and 32x32 pxiels size be possible? Those look great and I think they would work nicely in 32x32 too...

I was wonder same question

EDIT: apparently, 16 colors version is included! from readme.txt:

"All the icons are available in the
standard size of 48x48 pnts., in the 256 (NVDI palette), 16 (NVDI palette)
and 2 colour variants."

btw joska, can we expect your new task bar/manager?

[joska]

Both have 3D window gadgets and 3D themes for the desktop, not the standard one I'm running. Basically I'm asking where you got the theme from?

I can't speak for MyAES as I'm no MyAES user, but the "theme" in my screenshot is standard XaAES except for the window widgets.

[wongck]

Both have 3D window gadgets and 3D themes for the desktop, not the standard one I'm running. Basically I'm asking where you got the theme from?

Not sure about "theme". I don't have any themes myself but some settings for Xaaes that makes it looks nicer.

Try in your Xaaes.cnf file

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gradients=1

or

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gradients=g_blue

( or any of the g_*or n_* files).
I thought that the default should be 1, meaning you should be already seeing the 3D effects or at least that (ugly to me) texture effect.

I also changed the widget to my own creation. But you can use one of those predefined ones, like Magic style:

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widgets= widgets/magicwdg.rsc

The wallpaper, well you already know how to do that...
(or there were already plenty queries about this in this forum)

[wongck]

BTW... you need to turn colour to 32 bits or hi-colour mode.
Not sure what it is called in SV.

[OL]

Both have 3D window gadgets and 3D themes for the desktop, not the standard one I'm running. Basically I'm asking where you got the theme from?

I can't speak for MyAES as I'm no MyAES user, but the "theme" in my screenshot is standard XaAES except for the window widgets.

I can answer for MyAES as for Joska, this is the standard windframe. On new version this windframe is loaded for screen from 256 colors to true color, for less than 256 colors the windframe is not loaded and use an internal windframe that is very near from the TOS 1! I think MyAES doesn't display correctly in black and white screen my goal was to design it for true color screen.

OL

[Faucon2001]

This is an upcoming version of Taskbar.

Joska, where can we find this version of Taskbar ?

Philippe

[AtariSociety]

Any new news on this ultra cool dock for my Firebee? Hope to see it 2014?

TJ