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Dockapps Arrive at the OS X Dock

Posted by timothy on from the passengers-stream-out-in-panic dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Many of us have fallen in love with the convenience of dockapps through fvwm2, Windowmaker and Afterstep. Now, it looks like dockapps are finally coming to OS X at last. It's not Dashboard, but it is very cool."

2 of 27 comments (clear)

  1. Re:System-Friendly? by trendyhendy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Instructions for having a widget always visible are at Mac OS X Hints

  2. Re:So what? by amonredotorg · · Score: 5, Informative

    Agreed. In fact, Dockapps (usually called Docklings) are being deprecated in newer versions of Mac OS X. There were quite a few Docklings in 10.0 and 10.1 (including SlashDock), but there's very, very few Docklings left for 10.2 and later.

    This article at CocoaDev has a tutorial on making Docklings. Really easy.

    Dockapps aren't exactly the same as Docklings though, it seems... they have animated icons. Doing that is very easy as well, you just call NSApplication's -setApplicationIconImage: method every second or so. I don't need a framework for that.