Mocka Dock 0.0.2 alpha: window thumbnails, testers wanted

[ericbsd]

Mocka Dock 0.0.2 is out. It is the second alpha of the dock for GhostBSD testers, and the big addition is window thumbnails.

What's new

• Hover a running app's button to see a thumbnail of each of its windows. Click one to bring that window forward, or to minimize the one you are using. Hover it to show its close button.
• Clicking an app with several windows now shows its thumbnails straight away, replacing the plain window list from 0.0.1.
• Apps with many windows wrap their thumbnails onto more rows, so every window stays on screen.
• With a compositor running, thumbnails show what is in each window and update live while the popup is open. Marco's compositor is enough: Control Center → Windows → General → Enable software compositing window manager. Without a compositor, thumbnails show each window's icon and title.
• mocka-dock-collect-test-data is now installed with the dock, so you can send the data for an app that lands on the wrong button without the source tree.
• Fixes a crash risk when the panel shuts down with an app that has no desktop entry.

Getting it

0.0.2 arrives with the next GhostBSD package update:

pkg upgrade                 # or: pkg install mocka-dock
mate-panel --replace &      # only if the dock is already on a panel

To add it for the first time, right click the panel, choose Add to Panel, and pick Mocka Dock.

A question for you

Clicking an app with several windows shows its thumbnails, and clicking again hides them, even when hovering already showed them. On Windows 11, a click keeps them open instead. Which do you prefer? Please answer in this thread.

Reporting problems

Open an issue with what you did, what you expected, and what happened. If an app lands on the wrong button, run this while the app is open, click one of its windows, and attach the file it prints:

mocka-dock-collect-test-data gimp gimp.desktop

Links

• Announcement
• User guide
• Release notes