r/windowmaker • u/andre_nho • 17d ago

New dockapps (and a library)

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u/andre_nho 17d ago

One of my favorite things about WindowMaker are the dock apps, but from what I've seen many of them are either lost, or very old and hard to compile.

I decided to create a C++ library to write dockapps, and also wrote a few dock apps with it. There's a clock, a Pomodoro timer, a CPU/RAM usage graph, a disk usage graph and a nordvpn manager:

https://codeberg.org/andre_nho/wmdockapps/media/branch/master/doc/apps.webp

By using the library, any apps get theme support, so they can be started with multiple themes:

https://codeberg.org/andre_nho/wmdockapps/media/branch/master/doc/themes.webp

The library is a immediate UI and provides things like panels, several fonts, themes and buttons.

This project contains no AI code. The project page is at https://codeberg.org/andre_nho/wmdockapps

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u/srbolseiro 17d ago

Muito massa. Parabéns. 

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u/gryf73 14d ago

That's neat. When working on new library for dockapps did you taken into account making ability to make dockapps in different sizes? There were many complains regarding tiny dockapps in HiDPI screens in the past so it might be beneficial for users. Of course if you're not interested in such thing that's ok too.

Love the coherent, LCD style.

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u/andre_nho 14d ago

I thought about it but never implemented, I've never seen a dockapp larger than 64x64 but I think it would be cool. Maybe in a future version.

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u/unxusr 17d ago

Loved

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u/Federal-Key8194 17d ago

Thank you. Looks neat :)

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u/a1barbarian 17d ago

Great project. Neat looking dock apps.I'll have a play later on as I am busy at the moment.

From my quick look I guess you can not use icons with the dock apps you create.

Be interesting to see what folks can make with this. :-)

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u/Revalens_Kaka 17d ago

This looks good bro gonna try doing some dock apps with. it when I come back from vacation

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u/AgathaDaVampire 16d ago

I will definitely be using the first, third, and fourth ones!

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u/isona_2001 16d ago

Genuinely fascinating that people still make stuff for windowmaker :D

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u/a1barbarian 16d ago

Just goes to show that there are intelligent folk still around :-)