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2D Dock in OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)

This version 3.2 is also working for me for the first time on OS X 10.9.3

Can I request a reset in the color sidebar icons?

Also the "install custom dock bundle" can we do a square and squarev2 in black instead of white? That would be mint!

BTW just wanted to say Thanks w0lf for work you been doing!
 
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LordDeath said:
v3.2 is the first one that works for me and it looks great. Thanks! :)
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davidlv said:
Version 3.2 :D:D:D:cool::D:D:D
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philipfreire said:
This version 3.2 is also working for me for the first time on OS X 10.9.3
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Great! After a rocky start with v3 I think I've got most things sorted.

Next step will probably just be to make a few more colors of the square dock, what I have written in my notes are:
Baby Blue
Neon Pink
Rose Red
Electric Orange
Pitch Black

Another future thought in my head is if I can detect and disable DockMod if it's installed and enabled.

philipfreire said:
Can I request a reset in the color sidebar icons?
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"Reset Dock" also removes the Colored sidebar bundle, it just doesn't restart Finder. You can do that manually by right clicking on the Finder dock icon while holding option.

philipfreire said:
Also the "install custom dock bundle" can we do a square and squarev2 in black instead of white? That would be mint!
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Maybe.

I'm not really taking vague requests but if you want to post the exact values for a dock I might get around to building it:

Code: 
corner Radius: 		#0-6
background Color: 	R/255, G/255, B/255, A
border Color: 		R/255, G/255, B/255, A
border Width: 		#0-10
shadowRadius: 		#0-10
shadowOpacity: 		#0.00-1.00

Example:

Code: 
corner Radius: 		0
background Color: 	0, 0, 0, 1
border Color: 		1, 1, 1, .5
border Width: 		1
shadowRadius: 		2
shadowOpacity: 		0.75

Which would be a square dock, black color 0% transparent, white border 1px 50% transparent, shadow 2px 25% transparent

To figure out the RGBA values see: http://www.css3maker.com/css-3-rgba.html
And border stuff here: http://www.css3maker.com/border-radius.html
 
w0lf said:
"Reset Dock" also removes the Colored sidebar bundle, it just doesn't restart Finder. You can do that manually by right clicking on the Finder dock icon while holding option.
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I tried that, didn't remove it for me. :( It resets the dock back to original, but the sidebar colored icons stay colored.

Does it work for anyone else?

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w0lf said:
Maybe.

I'm not really taking vague requests but if you want to post the exact values for a dock I might get around to building it:

Code: 
corner Radius: 		#0-6
background Color: 	R/255, G/255, B/255, A
border Color: 		R/255, G/255, B/255, A
border Width: 		#0-10
shadowRadius: 		#0-10
shadowOpacity: 		#0.00-1.00

Example:

Code: 
corner Radius: 		0
background Color: 	0, 0, 0, 1
border Color: 		1, 1, 1, .5
border Width: 		1
shadowRadius: 		2
shadowOpacity: 		0.75

Which would be a square dock, black color 0% transparent, white border 1px 50% transparent, shadow 2px 25% transparent

To figure out the RGBA values see: http://www.css3maker.com/css-3-rgba.html
And border stuff here: http://www.css3maker.com/border-radius.html
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I found that d00rknocker altered the 10.8 style and just set the border to 0. Thats all I was really looking for. If you want you can include that in the package - but I just added it into the resources folder as an option.
This is the file.
File
 
philipfreire said:
I tried that, didn't remove it for me. :( It resets the dock back to original, but the sidebar colored icons stay colored.

Does it work for anyone else?
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Yeah actually it doesn't right now... just delete ~/Library/Application\ Support/SIMBL/Plugins/ColorfulSidebar.bundle
to get rid of it
 
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w0lf said:
Yeah actually it doesn't right now... just delete ~/Library/Application\ Support/SIMBL/Plugins/ColorfulSidebar.bundle
to get rid of it
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It would be convenient to have an "Uninstall ColorfulSidebar bundle" option in the popup. Possible?
Edited with corrections for accuracy: I noticed another glitch, actually an error popup when I start PowerMail, which I prefer vastly to Mail. PowerMail runs fine after hitting the OK button in that popup, but it is a pain. Stopping the SIMBL Agent process in Activity Monitor restores PowerMail to normal (no more Error message on startup) and the Transparent Dock is still working, but the Colourful sidebar icons get kicked out of the houses (I expected both to disappear). The programmers at PowerMail's company are (in)famous for doing things their own special way, but what could they be doing/using that SIMBL Agent disrupts? I have seen no other bad "side-effects" (pun intentional!).:confused:
Testing showed that it is the ColorfulSidebar.bundle in the ~/Library/ApplicationSupport/SIMBL/ folder that causes the error message in PowerMail. Works fine without that error message after deleting that bundle (goodbye pretty icons):(
 
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Got this to run on 10.9.3...

And it solves my problems on choppy animation on Mission Control...

Thanks to whoever that created this fine piece of app... :D
 
I had DockMod disabled, but just to be sure, I rechecked that it was disabled and it was. Then I went ahead and uninstalled it with AppZapper.

I was fairly sure I hadn't done the terminal command: defaults write com.apple.dock hide-mirror -bool true, but just to be certain, I changed "true" to "false" and killed the dock. Then I retried with cDock 3.1. Still nothing.

So I uninstalled version 3.1 with AppZapper and installed version 3.2. Version 3.2 worked perfectly!

Thanks w0lf. Like Eithanius said, it also solved my choppy Mission Control animations. I'm loving the transparent dock and the colorful Finder sidebar!
 
Still doesn't work

Man, I don't know why my computer is so weird compared with everyone elses, but cDock does nothing for me. It's still the same crappy default Mavericks dock.

I checked, and it seems a good number of bundles aren't installed. For example, I have no LaunchAgent folder in my root System folder. Did I miss something about the install process? (And by that I mean, should there be an install process? Because I've never encountered one).

Would really like this to work. It seems a little thing, but I especially miss my colored sidebar. When dealing with files all day it make things visually a great deal easier.

Should I uninstall SIMBL or something and try again?
 
davidlv said:
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It would be convenient to have an "Uninstall ColorfulSidebar bundle" option in the popup. Possible?
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Will add.

Eithanius said:
Got this to run on 10.9.3...

And it solves my problems on choppy animation on Mission Control...

Thanks to whoever that created this fine piece of app... :D
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:)

TimApple said:
How can I uninstall the colored finder sidebar?
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Forgot to type .bundle somewhere will be fixed soon.

bobdamnit said:
I had DockMod disabled, but just to be sure, I rechecked that it was disabled and it was. Then I went ahead and uninstalled it with AppZapper.

I was fairly sure I hadn't done the terminal command: defaults write com.apple.dock hide-mirror -bool true, but just to be certain, I changed "true" to "false" and killed the dock. Then I retried with cDock 3.1. Still nothing.

So I uninstalled version 3.1 with AppZapper and installed version 3.2. Version 3.2 worked perfectly!

Thanks w0lf. Like Eithanius said, it also solved my choppy Mission Control animations. I'm loving the transparent dock and the colorful Finder sidebar!
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Well it's nice that it's working. :cool:

Ideally cDock should work without you having to do any of that other stuff though and new versions should work without the prior version being completely trashed by an app removing program. It now corrects the hide-mirror command on it's own and working around DockMod is the next step for me to get working.

lehestro said:
Man, I don't know why my computer is so weird compared with everyone elses, but cDock does nothing for me. It's still the same crappy default Mavericks dock.

I checked, and it seems a good number of bundles aren't installed. For example, I have no LaunchAgent folder in my root System folder. Did I miss something about the install process? (And by that I mean, should there be an install process? Because I've never encountered one).

Would really like this to work. It seems a little thing, but I especially miss my colored sidebar. When dealing with files all day it make things visually a great deal easier.

Should I uninstall SIMBL or something and try again?
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Have you or are you using DockMod ?

What's the contents of the log file in cDock.app/Contents/Resources/_app.log after trying to install?

Are all these files present after installing ?

~/Library/Application Scripts/cDock/2d.sh
~/Library/Application Support/cDock/SIMBL Agent.app
~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/cDock.bundle
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.w0lf.cDock.plist
~/Library/ScriptingAdditions/EasySIMBL.osax

What directory is cDock in when you run it ? (eg ~/Downloads or /Applications)


Also make sure you've got the latest version. Try opening it, use the Restore Dock option then try installing the dock/item you want.
 
cDock v3.3 - Downloadhttps://sourceforge.net/projects/cdock/files/latest/download

Changelog
Code: 
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v3.3

New:		Restore Finder option
New:		Automatically disables DockMod
New:		Dock bundle
			10.8(blackdock) no border

Fixed:		Restore Dock not removing Finder Bundle
Fixed:		Restore leaving files

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One of these days I'll get this thing to work right...
 
w0lf said:
cDock v3.3 - Downloadhttps://sourceforge.net/projects/cdock/files/latest/download

Changelog
Code: 
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v3.3

New:		Restore Finder option
New:		Automatically disables DockMod
New:		Dock bundle
			10.8(blackdock) no border

Fixed:		Restore Dock not removing Finder Bundle
Fixed:		Restore leaving files

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One of these days I'll get this thing to work right...
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Hell of a job! version 3.3 is about perfect. I can't find anything wrong!
 
w0lf said:
cDock v3.3 - Downloadhttps://sourceforge.net/projects/cdock/files/latest/download

Changelog
Code: 
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v3.3

New:		Restore Finder option
New:		Automatically disables DockMod
New:		Dock bundle
			10.8(blackdock) no border

Fixed:		Restore Dock not removing Finder Bundle
Fixed:		Restore leaving files

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One of these days I'll get this thing to work right...
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:cool:w:Dlf:cool:
 
Hey w0lf...

Two things I've observed on cDock:

1. A Restart will launch cDock by default, but Log Out/Log In does not.

2. Any installation of software that adds new items onto the Dock will revert it back to the crappy Mavericks dock.


Perhaps future releases can address these issues...? :D

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bobdamnit said:
Like Eithanius said, it also solved my choppy Mission Control animations. I'm loving the transparent dock and the colorful Finder sidebar!
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Don't forget to feedback Apple to restore the 2D Dock feature hopefully by near future releases of Mavericks... :p:p
 
w0lf, first of all - great software.

Do you think it would ever be feasible to get cDock to work with one of the custom 10.6 (bitmap-based) docks? That would be absolutely amazing.
 
cDock is legendary, it's the first true dock customising tool for Mavericks, you should put this on deviant art's macintosh utilities section to let more mac themers know about it! :D
 
Fantastic work! The only two issues I'd love you to look into for the 10.8 theme are:

- Spacing of the edge icons against the dock border needs some padding
- The original 10.8 illuminator lights
- A greyer finish to the transparency than black (10.8 dock was a tad greyer)

Though some or all of these could be fixed if I looked into importing my own theme I imagine.
 
pickaxe said:
w0lf, first of all - great software.

Do you think it would ever be feasible to get cDock to work with one of the custom 10.6 (bitmap-based) docks? That would be absolutely amazing.
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Doubt it. I don't have 10.6 but what happens when you try to use it on 10.6?

cbbflfjz said:
cDock is legendary, it's the first true dock customising tool for Mavericks, you should put this on deviant art's macintosh utilities section to let more mac themers know about it! :D
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Okay I did that. http://w0lfschild.deviantart.com/art/cDock-v3-3-445344283

Kilamite said:
Fantastic work! The only two issues I'd love you to look into for the 10.8 theme are:

- Spacing of the edge icons against the dock border needs some padding
- The original 10.8 illuminator lights
- A greyer finish to the transparency than black (10.8 dock was a tad greyer)

Though some or all of these could be fixed if I looked into importing my own theme I imagine.
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- Spacing of the edge icons against the dock border needs some padding
v4 beta will let you adjust the size of the 2d rectangle​

- The original 10.8 illuminator lights

- A greyer finish to the transparency than black (10.8 dock was a tad greyer)
v4 beta will let you make the color whatever you want just like shown here https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-bdzenAXbO5Y1N3aEQyVW5LSW8/preview​
 
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Thank you for your advice W0lf! Now I know how to customize my own bundle with xcode to make the best dock for me. it was not easy at first but now I mastered it! ... Finally you put it on deviantart. Awsome!:)
 
w0lf said:
I'm not 100% sure it will fix the issues you're having but please do try the latest version (3.0) if you're still interested and let me know if it works for you.​
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Superb! Amazing! Now i'm using v3.3 and it's working fine at 10.9.2.

Thanks a lot for your hard work.
 
Great work. Thank you for all the hard work you've done.

A few questions.

Is Beta 4 available as a download?

Are there other dock bundles (themes) available?

Otherwise, I'll dig around and play with it a bit, mod the colors and such in Xcode. This will be especially helpful for older Mac's running 10.9.x as the dock animations can take up system resources.

Thanks again!
 
bedifferent said:
Great work. Thank you for all the hard work you've done.

A few questions.

Is Beta 4 available as a download?

Are there other dock bundles (themes) available?

Otherwise, I'll dig around and play with it a bit, mod the colors and such in Xcode. This will be especially helpful for older Mac's running 10.9.x as the dock animations can take up system resources.

Thanks again!
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At the same time please feedback Apple regarding this... :D:D
 
dockmod's been running stable here, am not thinking about it! (it took a couple of versions to become stable...). i love having a clear dock...
 
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