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[Locked] How to show hundreds of icons?
eastfire English 8 matttbe [Read]
19 June 2010 à 01:49

eastfire, Tuesday 25 May 2010 à 05:15


Subscription date : 10 May 2010
Messages : 22
If I put too many icon into one sub-dock like shortcuts or stack, all icons will be so tiny that can't be distinguished.
How to resolve that?

Guest, Tuesday 25 May 2010 à 08:59

My first thought would be for the fisheye effect to scale hovered-over icons up to full size no matter how much the dock has shrunk them. But i don't believe cairo-dock currently works this way

Tofe, Tuesday 25 May 2010 à 09:02


Subscription date : 09 February 2008
Messages : 921
You would need a view with scrolling, I would say. Today, there isn't much choice: only Carroussel achieves such thing. However it may be that it is not enough.
If you choose a "SlideShow" view, you may have a better icon size, but still it will be tiny. Here I think a scrollable Slide view would be very nice... Or maybe something else ?...

fabounet, Tuesday 25 May 2010 à 11:27


Subscription date : 30 November 2007
Messages : 17118
with the "Slide" view you can cover almost all your desktop
I wonder how many icons you have, but if it's too much even for this view, it's maybe that you should make another sub-dock
(for instance, you can instanciate Stack or Shortcuts 2 times)

Anyway I agree for a scrollable Slide view, or better

matttbe, Tuesday 25 May 2010 à 13:46


Subscription date : 24 January 2009
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Anyway I agree for a scrollable Slide view, or better
+1

And why not having an applet with all apps into a subdock with Slide view

ppmt, Tuesday 25 May 2010 à 15:50


Subscription date : 29 November 2007
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scrollable view.....Yeah baby!!! when can we have that?

Then I put all my images in one subdock... 29568 of them :D, that should test it

Tofe, Tuesday 25 May 2010 à 16:20


Subscription date : 09 February 2008
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@fab: I'll try to do the addition, if you haven't started yet to work on it.

fabounet, Tuesday 25 May 2010 à 16:57


Subscription date : 30 November 2007
Messages : 17118
nope I haven't

@Ppmt : only the visible icons should be loaded then or maybe icons should be loaded in the main loop.
if this breaks too much code in the core it should be postponed after the 2.2 release.

matttbe, Saturday 19 June 2010 à 01:49


Subscription date : 24 January 2009
Messages : 12573
@Tofe: something like that (but without bugs and with effects )

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[Locked] How to show hundreds of icons?
eastfire English 8 matttbe [Read]
19 June 2010 à 01:49


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