ObjectDock 2.0 Beta Feedback

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 by Island Dog | Discussion: ObjectDock

ObjectDock 2.0 beta went out today to customers who have pre-ordered.  To keep some order in the forums, lets try to consolidate some of the feedback into this thread.

If you are posting an issue please be as descriptive as possible so we can address it if possible.  Thanks for your feedback and enjoy!

 

March 30:

Beta Release

 

July 29th:

Beta v1.98 released

https://www.wincustomize.com/article/389526/

 

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MichaelG04
Reply #141 Friday, April 2, 2010 8:35 AM

MichaelG04
just an update on  my performance issues, fresh reformat, works smooth as butter.  i haven't installed video drivers yet, but i'm hoping it stays this way

it's now running great, but the minimize animation no longer works to object dock

Lantec
Reply #142 Friday, April 2, 2010 2:05 PM

 6 pages so far...someone may have already reported this.....

 

Windows 7 x64 Dual Monitor setup

the "Position > Change Monitor" does not work for either tabbed or zoomers. I can drag tabbed docks to the secondary monitor but not zoomers.

 

Ghost mode is excellent, thanks

 

 

Gizmo15
Reply #143 Friday, April 2, 2010 3:24 PM

Lantec

the "Position > Change Monitor" does not work for either tabbed or zoomers. I can drag tabbed docks to the secondary monitor but not zoomers.

 

Ghost mode is excellent, thanks

 

 

 

I have this issue on my XP machine, but so far it works on both Win 7 machines.

Mindpack
Reply #144 Friday, April 2, 2010 3:52 PM

Mindpack

Quoting MichaelG04, reply 137just an update on  my performance issues, fresh reformat, works smooth as butter.  i haven't installed video drivers yet, but i'm hoping it stays this way

 

That's great!  Too bad reformatting isn't really a practical option for me, but I'm glad it's working well for you.  Just wish I knew what was causing the problem for me.

 

Terminating both Anvir Task Manager Pro and Logitech Setpoint make OD2+ run much more smoothly on my quad-core Dell M6400 system--still not quite like butter, but much better.  Too bad Task Manager Pro is a very useful, always-on utility.  Not sure I'm willing to give it up.  It'd certainly be better if their quasi-incompatibility could be resolved peacefully rather than by one winning and the other losing.

Bebi Bulma
Reply #145 Friday, April 2, 2010 5:52 PM

I just noticed something very interesting. I have my tabbed dock set as a drawer right on top of my taskbar. When I hover over the taskbar in a spot where an icon would be (if the dock had been brought up), I'm seeing the label for the icon. You can't see it, but my mouse cursor was just to the right of the selected taskbar button, underneath the Tools tab.

And here you can see the dock brought up, and the actual icon.

Don't think I ever noticed this before on OD 1.9.

WebGizmos
Reply #146 Friday, April 2, 2010 6:40 PM

1. Next to your Xmas socking?

Xmas socking...xmas socking...hmmmm....nope...nothing!

 

Jeff Gamble
Reply #147 Friday, April 2, 2010 8:14 PM

Bebi Bulma
I just noticed something very interesting. I have my tabbed dock set as a drawer right on top of my taskbar. When I hover over the taskbar in a spot where an icon would be (if the dock had been brought up), I'm seeing the label for the icon. You can't see it, but my mouse cursor was just to the right of the selected taskbar button, underneath the Tools tab.

I noticed this effect also.  

 

I am running Windows7 (64bit) on intel quad-core (8200), 6GB ram, Geforce 9600GSO video card.

Just got this computer about a week ago, wiped the HD, and installed everything fresh.

 

First, my +/- icons in my tabbed dock are working just fine, and I just tested the recycle bin, and empty/full icons work as they should.

 

OK, here is my take on things... I can't comment on everything (like dual-monitor issues), but here's what I like and don't like:

--Love the shiny new tidbits.. Like the new settings window, reflections, and tab-dragging.

--At least for me, the animation of the zoomer dock is smoother than OD-1.9 (and I thought it was smooth before)

 

Thats about everything that I like and feel was an improvement over 1.9. Now for the not-so-good stuff:

--Startup performance is not so good... With a significant upgrade to my system, I thought it would be better... It's at least as slow, if not worse.

--Blur behind setting doesn't work for me... Anything behind a dock that has transparency does not blur at all. 

--Mouse-over issue with hidden tabbed dock along taskbar... (As mentioned at the top of my post

--Items that I feel should be included in the settings window, but aren't: Change running indicators, adjust reflections(size, position, transparency), and kinda goes along with the reflections - icon offset. (I had to edit the config.ini file to make these adjustments))

 

--Two things that I have wanted since Object Dock first came out: 1.) Ability to adjust icon spacing (I just want to move the icons a little more apart)  2.) Ability to adjust "Attention" effect... I only use "glow" because I think the other effects are a bit too wild (for example: I would like to change the # of times it rocks, bounces, spins & change the speed that it is animated)

 

Well, thats it... I really do like the 2.0 update, just hope Stardock addresses some of these.

Bebi Bulma
Reply #148 Friday, April 2, 2010 9:13 PM

Really disappointing that the 'browse for icon image' dialog hasn't been touched at all. I was hoping we would be able to add in our own libraries (does *anyone* actually store icons in the OD library? I know I don't). Seems kind of useless having it point there if no one stores their icons there to begin with.

MichaelG04
Reply #149 Saturday, April 3, 2010 1:45 PM

well, back on my performance issues, back to running like crap, what seems like 5 FPS now that i've added more icons and whatnot, getting kind of a pain in the butt, but it is beta so we'll see.

wondering when we'll get some stardock feedback, and when we'll get a upcoming feature list, would like to know whether or not it's going to be able to compete with other docks out there

mskr4him
Reply #150 Saturday, April 3, 2010 4:29 PM

HeldvomFeld
Also when i create a new dock i cant move it to my secondary monitor.....i click "monitor 2" and nothing happens.......this is annoying

Am having the same problem with the new 2.0 beta version.  It worked fine before.  I currently have two other docks on my second monitor, but I can't add a new one.

This product is excelent I really like it.  Thanks.

matanic
Reply #151 Saturday, April 3, 2010 5:14 PM

Someone asked this earlier, but I don't see where anyone responded.  Is there any way to load/save docks?

WinMonster2
Reply #152 Saturday, April 3, 2010 6:12 PM

Ok it has been several days since the Release of OD2 I have been going through it.

 

I asked myself 3 questions

What do I like?

The Reflections

The New UI

The ability to have a working systray dock

 

What do I dislike?

The lack of ability to import new backgrounds without having to unzip them and move them to the objectdock 2.0 folder manually.(If this is possible and someone can tell me how it would be great)

The lack of ability to have the taskbar and systray on the same zoomer dock

The Lack of ability to Save and Load Docks

I have created several dock backgrounds(have only shared 2 at this time) I really liked the package images feature.

 

What would I Like to See?

I would Like to be able to add My Custom Icon Folder To the default list witout having to actually moving it to OD2 folder

More Documentation as to what new features may be planned

The return of the FlyOut Menu(Stacks is nice but,I really like the flyout Menu)

 

 

Randall30
Reply #153 Sunday, April 4, 2010 12:02 AM

Only issue I see is I am missing the my music, my documents and my pictures icons anyway to import them from 1.9?

c242
Reply #154 Sunday, April 4, 2010 7:34 AM

Can anyone point me to a setting, with that I can tell docklets that OD is on the top ? I still have problems with Stacks-Docklet opening the stacks up to the top, which is unfortunate if You have OD at the top also.

Randall30
Reply #155 Sunday, April 4, 2010 7:45 AM

Can anyone point me to a setting, with that I can tell docklets that OD is on the top ? I still have problems with Stacks-Docklet opening the stacks up to the top, which is unfortunate if You have OD at the top also.

 

Not sure if you want right click on OD then position then uncheck tab on tops.

WinMonster2
Reply #156 Monday, April 5, 2010 5:22 AM

c242 I had that problem with version one of the stacks docklet but, somebody here on the forum posted a link to version 2 just look around it is here some wheres and then things worked fine

1549
Reply #157 Monday, April 5, 2010 5:29 AM

Looking good and working fine on windows 7 64bit desktop and 32 bit laptop.

Mirsguy
Reply #158 Monday, April 5, 2010 12:39 PM

Just noticed this one this morning:

Mouseover text on tabbed docks sometimes goes behind the dock background, and sometimes disappears altogether. As I recall, this is one of those bugs that haunted 1.9.

runamonk
Reply #159 Monday, April 5, 2010 1:51 PM

(The text bug), I haven't had this happen yet. This drove me totally nuts with 1.9. I was really hoping this one would stay away forever hehe.

Excalpius
Reply #160 Monday, April 5, 2010 2:39 PM

The really big unspoken question is how long will it be until the next build addresses the new bugs?    

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