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Features? Products? Changes?
Published on August 18, 2008 By Zargon In Object Desktop

Planning for Object Desktop 2009 has begun and we want your help.

Got an idea for any of the products that are part of Object Desktop?

  • Looking for a feature?
  • Looking for a new product?
  • Want something changed?

This is the thread for you!

 


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on Aug 19, 2008
Looking for a feature?


png support in Right-Click



Looking for a new product?


Multi-Monitor controls that work with Windowblinds
on Aug 19, 2008
  • Compiz-like tool - http://compiz.org/Home/Screenshots
  • A DX framework that uses WB skins (so my DX clock or calendar or whatever would use the WB skin)
  • Icon organization on the desktop
  • An expose'-like app - none that I have tried work well enough to use regularly.  I'd love to see all non focused apps be grayed out
  • A mouse gesture app
  • OB and RC skinning using WB back in place
on Aug 19, 2008
png support in Right-Click
With Alpha blending.
Looking for a new product?
A newb-level skinning app to allow us to skin Impulse. I know there's a way and I'll have to edit the Skin\Images files, but that doesn't help the average newb
World Peace
A Bunn coffee maker.
Umm...coffee.
on Aug 19, 2008
Theme Manager needs to change to more Appts. Good look for 2009.
on Aug 19, 2008
Compiz-like tool
Yeah, I missed that too! It's awesome....
Looking for a new product?
Yeah....now that you think of it:
1. A Stardock-based internet browser, fully skinnable and customizable, built upon the Mozilla framework. Impulse and SDC come close, but you can't visit Facebook or Gmail through them....yet.
2. The genie effect in ObjectDock. [Yes, I know it's not in ODNT, but I'm not listening, am I?]
3. A Stardock operating system, with every possible skinning proggie squished in. It must be completely skinnable and customizable, and with all the SD apps built in.
4. A Windows Explorer alternative that allows you to browse through your files in CoverFlow and Piclens mode.
Need I say more?
on Aug 19, 2008
I'd like to see ObjectDock Plus as part of the OD suite. But that's just me. Zubaz linked to a page full of Compiz screenshots. One thing that has always bugged me is the fact that Microsoft did not take after the Compiz project. While it's good that they are now using the 3D card to do all the window drawing and compositing, it just pales in comparison to what Compiz is capable of doing. Ever since having used it myself, I've been hooked on it. Having Compiz-like effects and window manager would do wonders to how Vista is used. I loved how their Alt-tab worked compared to Vista's pitiful version. It's a long-shot but Stardock has the chance at this time to kick Vista's terrible Desktop Window Manager and replace it with an entirely new, different, and Compiz-like alternative. It may obsolete a few things (virtual desktop and WindowFX) but you can always set a price because of the work it entails. And I'd be first in line to snatch up a copy of such a product.
on Aug 19, 2008
Theme Manager needs to change to more Appts.
+1
on Aug 19, 2008
A DX framework that uses WB skins (so my DX clock or calendar or whatever would use the WB skin)

Yes! It would be really great! And this will save a lot of my time.

Several months age I have done a simple WB Skin reader that allow me to extract some parts of installed skin like window borders, buttons, etc... to apply them into the widgets through object.picture. Seems it works. However I have a problem with observing for image margins and applying them correctly. Now I stopped this project because I have not enough time to finish it. So I'll be happy if Strdock's DX developers will make this Instead of me. I can be very lazy sometimes...   
on Aug 19, 2008
1) PLEASE!, GIVE US THE OBJECT DOCK 2.0! FULLY VGA HARDWARE ACCELERATED AND NEW FEATURES LIKE STACKS DOCKLETS, EXIT WINDOWS AND FULL SUPPORT FOR TRAY ACCTIONS AND ICONS BOTH XP SP3 AND VISTA. 2) ON ICONPACKAGER 4.0, PLEASE MAKE A FULL WIDE CACHE ICON AN COTROL OF IT, BECAUSE AFTER A WHILE OF ADDING CUSTOM ICONS AND EXTENSIONS, THE ICONS LOST ON WINDOWS RESTART, IM FULLY AWARE THIS IS BECAUSE A POOR ICON CACHE, IN VERSION 3.2 WAS A MAXIUM OF 8MB, IN VERSION 4.0 THERE IS NO APPAREANCE OF CACHE IN OPTIONS, I ASSUME THAT'S THE SAME 8MB, SO PLZ MAKE IT 64MB OR MORE!.
on Aug 19, 2008
WEE NEDD URGENT OBJECT DOCK PLUS 2.0!
on Aug 19, 2008
Is there any way that Cursor FX can be added to the OD Ultimate package?   
on Aug 19, 2008
Ability to animate folder glyphs ex........My Music

This is what I have

This is what I would love to have!!
on Aug 19, 2008
I'd like to see the 'flyout' feature used on hovering over an inactive tab allowing clicking on an app in that (inactive) section's content.
on Aug 19, 2008
I missed address on the 1st one Ability to animate folder glyphs ex........My Music
This is what I have

This is what I would love to have!!
on Aug 19, 2008
An expose'-like app - none that I have tried work well enough to use regularly.
+1 That would be über to have, I feel so naked without Exposé in Windows. PixelPirate hugs OS X
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