Why do you use ObjectDock?

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I suppose its a silly question!

Right now I've got ObjectDesktop and all those wonderful programs (life without Fences Pro and windowblinds would make Windows so sad). Sometimes I get asked about these sort of programs by friends, so I figured I'd best look into this too. Now, at work I also use OSX (for maybe 7 years now) and honestly? I don't like the dock, but that's also partly due to OSX only resizing windows via the bottom right corner (which sometimes gets covered up) and personal preference (I've seen some ridiculous docks where the user has nothing but tiny icons streaming the bottom of their screen because every little thing has an icon in the dock).

As such, well, I'm kinda biased and am most likely missing the good points of having a dock. Could you please tell me why you use (and hopefully love) ObjectDock? In addition to subjective, anecdotal and "you gotta try this stuff," you might have that I likely am too biased to see off the bat...

1. How lightweight is the program? Better to have multi-core CPU's?

2. Is it better for some things than others?

3. How much control over its behavior do you have?

4. Do windows, when expanded to being full-screen, recognize the dock as something to work around?

5. Can it be used along with a taskbar (particularly just as a quick-launcher for programs instead of showing active programs)? Or is it better to use it as a task-bar replacement?

I'm more interested in the paid version than the free version.

I generally try to be able to offer good information on something, even if I personally don't like or care for it. If something is good and I can't sell you on it, its my fault because I'm letting my biases get in the way, you know?

And if this is the wrong place for this type of question - could a mod kindly move it?

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

1. How lightweight is the program? Better to have multi-core CPU's?

Very lightweight, I have 2 zoomer docks with 25 shortcuts and 3 docklets running, 2 tabbed docks, 7 tabs total, numerous shortcuts. OD using only 44 meg of ram with it set to use ram, it can be set to be more ram friendly.

My system, 2.4 gig celeron and 1 gig 333 ram that only runs at 266 due to the celeron and OD runs very well.

3. How much control over its behavior do you have?

Total.


4. Do windows, when expanded to being full-screen, recognize the dock as something to work around?

OD can be set up various ways, on top, bottom, auto hide that with moving cursor to dock screen edge will bring it to the front, you can reserve screen edge so a maxed window will not cover dock.

5. Can it be used along with a taskbar (particularly just as a quick-launcher for programs instead of showing active programs)? Or is it better to use it as a task-bar replacement?

Some use it as a taskbar replacement, I however do not hide the windows taskbar.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I don't.   :grin:

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

There are 2 programs that I could not do without on my work PC...ObjectDock and Fences.

They are also the only programs that I've OK'ed my employees to install as well.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting CarGuy1, reply 3
There are 2 programs that I could not do without on my work PC...ObjectDock and Fences.

They are also the only programs that I've OK'ed my employees to install as well.

 

Fences, yes.  Object Dock......not needed if you use DesktopX.......:-"