Martin Notes

I’ve given up in AWN. Back to the good old, boring, gnome-panel days. AWN is just too unstable to use on my company laptop. Try giving a presentation when AWN decides to show a huge, unremovable, UPDATE icon at the bottom of your screen…

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Why is AWN such a crap product. It looks beautiful, but it crashes, the UI is hopeless and some stuff just doesn’t work. I really don’t understand why it seems to be so complicated to create a dock for linux that just works. Is that really so hard to do?

A dock should work like AWN, but then not show the stuff that AWN shows when you startup. The notification area should look a bit better then it does now. The hide/show should work, can somebody think what should happen when you open a menu or popup (the terminal popup is great) and the dock hides? Should the dock even hide then? It should be possible to put the dock on the upper, left and right part of the screen.

All pretty basic stuff, but it seems our coding friends out there can’t get it done. I hope they will at some point, because the Gnome panel is worthless and it’s time for something new. Until then I’ll have to live with AWN.

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