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I mainly use it for image viewing and quick resizing if I don't want to load up Photoshop.

The reason I downloaded to begin with a few years ago was because it shows animated gifs, then I just liked the way it ran so I've been using it ever since.

Adrien

Can you give us a link to this one and the rest of the backgrouds you guys have because i would prefer one with XPS, of something like than on my XPS2

I purchased the plus version of Objectdock, which I'm discovering was probably a mistake since I basically only use what comes with the free version. The tabbed docks are nice, but it ended up being easier just having all of my icons in one dock.

My biggest beef with it at first was the fact that you couldn't have both the taskbar and the system try appear on the same dock at the same time. I don't really need the system tray all that often, but when I use chat programs like Trillian, the only way I can bring up my contact list is by clicking the icon in my system tray. Steam was also problematic for me because after I had already loaded CS:S once, it wouldn't let me launch again unless I closed Steam. I've gotten around this now, and I found a handy docklet that moves your system try into one dock icon. I can now see my open programs and my system tray all at once. Now, the only problem I have is that the dock will just disappear arbitrarily for an unknown reason. It seems to happen after I close a program once in a while. Since my taskbar is shut off, it's not so easy to navigate without it. I end up having to hit the Windows button on the keyboard and reload the program. Not a huge deal, but it is a nuisance. I wish I could figure out why that happens.

As for Sysstat docklets, I haven't been able to get them to work either. I download them and add them to the dock, but it's just a question mark icon and I can't figure out how to get them to work. I've been okay avoiding them up to now, as I found a non-sysstats weather docklet that works, and my battery status icon has worked from the start. The weather docklet that came with Objectdock wouldn't work for me (it just always said N/A), so I found another one that's XML-based that works fine. It doesn't seem to update very often, and usually when I click on it, the temperatures reported are slightly off (clicking on it takes you to the weather.com forecast page for your zip code).

All in all, I'm really happy with Objectdock and glad I discovered it on this forum. It's really fun finding icons for all your programs and adding cool new docklets to the dock. The boring Windows taskbar sure gets dull after a while.

Supposedly...once you add the sysstat to the objectdock file...you close OD and reopen it. Then you add the sysstat and that brings up the question mark. You rightclick on the question mark and select LOAD...and go from there. Never worked for me, though.
System tray? I've been wondering how to access that!
Where'd you find the docklet for that? Or is that something for the purchased version?
The only way I can get the Konfabulator options is through the icon in the system tray so I was having to close OD. For now, I've moved OD to the side and set my regular Windows bar to 'autohide' when not in use....
OD closes on me, sometime...but only when I pull certian docklets off the dock...They go *boom* and then it closes. I think it happened the most when I was trying to get the sysstat docklets to work...

I found the system tray docklet by just searching through all the docklets. I've found that entering search words isn't all that reliable, so I just clicked through all of them one afternoon to see if there were any others I wanted. I think there's like 11 pages of docklets to click through or something like that. Just click through them and you're bound to find it. If searching happens to work for you, the docklet is called "ObjectDock Tray Version 1.21" by Melchior Moos. It's been a life-saver for me. I was considering getting rid of Object dock completely until I found it because that was just too big of a problem not having access to my system tray. Sometimes the icons act a little wonky, but it works for what I need it for.

new bg

Another update:



Adrien

umm......who is the chic in the pic?

josie marian

where'd you get that and the darth vader wallpaper?

lol for some reason that guy in your pic looks alot like john goodman to me...

that is john goodman and I think if I'm not mistaken from the movie the Big Lebowski

Correct.

Both wallpapers I found somewhere on the internet, I don't keep track usually. However on both of them I cut out Walter and Darth and placed them on a gradient background that matched the native resolution. I also added a black upwards shadow for effect. Not much, but then again it's the simple things that make me happy.

Eventually I might venture off and make them a bit more appealing, we'll see.

If you'd like them please e-mail me: adrien@urbanosity.com

Adrien

tjmaxwell-
Found the objectdock tray...thanks!
Seems to work great...(although, sometimes it's hard to find the right spot to be able to click for configuration)
Still not finished tweaking my desktop...but getting there...lol

Toy-Yoda, what are you searching for on Google? I think I saw some links to that once.

check this out..... total overhaul of boring windows looks ..... hmmm... i know it looks great....

Yowza...that's alot of icons!
What programs are you using for your desktop stuff.
I recognize Objectdock (I think) or are they all OD?

PM Noblesin!!!

Thanks! Forgot noble had mentioned having them available.