Comments on I' Been to Ubuntu: Getting Rid of AWN and Replacing it with Gnome Do'...

Qtuie strange. I only get it it 1% on a PIV (and t...

2009-04-29T14:13:10.855+07:00

Qtuie strange. I only get it it 1% on a PIV (and that's using a vase driver with faux Metacity compositing).

Could you have a bad plugin?

I tried Docky but it used 100% CPU on one of my co...

2009-04-29T13:39:28.550+07:00

I tried Docky but it used 100% CPU on one of my cores, so I can't see how AWN can be any slower.

Docky is way faster than AWN and isnt written in n...

2009-04-08T04:56:49.879+07:00

Docky is way faster than AWN and isnt written in nasty python which helps speed it up too.

AWN has so many bugs with redrawing and multiple screens that it makes it a pain to use.

There is a notifactions style thing coming but its going to be different from the standard notifaction area apparently and be more integrated into the various launcherSs!

As I mentioned, Docky isn't featureful -- it doesn...

2009-01-18T19:39:30.281+07:00

As I mentioned, Docky isn't featureful -- it doesn't have a notification area (something that it need in my opinion, or any other plug-ins. The interface is new, though, so these may or may not come about in time. The interface also has a single look -- flat.

If you want all the flash and configurability of AWN, you need to stick with it.

The interface does seem pretty, but does docky hav...

2009-01-18T17:43:30.355+07:00

The interface does seem pretty, but does docky have features similar to awn's notification area or places applet ??
If it does, then i would happily replace awn with docky ..

@Anonymous #1Why are you such an ungrateful bastar...

2009-01-17T23:32:52.136+07:00

@Anonymous #1

Why are you such an ungrateful bastard? Okay he misssed it, so fucking what.

Thanks for the tip man, spot on!

Apologies for supplying only the screenshot and in...

2009-01-17T23:03:37.322+07:00

Apologies for supplying only the screenshot and info. I realize that this doesn't work for folks on Hardy.

Actually not quite..deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/d...

2009-01-17T19:38:10.610+07:00

Actually not quite..

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-testers/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-testers/ubuntu intrepid main

Would it have killed you to give us the full deb l...

2009-01-17T19:17:14.634+07:00

Would it have killed you to give us the full deb line to paste into 3rd party software sources? It would have saved me a minute of fluffing around.

Here it is..

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-testers/ubuntu/ intrepid main