Circle Dock Discussion (in Windows 7, now scrapped)

[mervyn797]

Do some of you know about the Circle Dock which was going to be included in Windows 7 but scrapped pretty early due to some problems?
Well it looked pretty cool.


I tried an app,
Click this spoiler to see how it looked.

Spoiler:

pretty amazing? or no?
Well should it have been there or not?

theres a free source program which is being developed and is pretty good. :D

 

[Zet]

The "Circle Dock" looks like an eye sore in my opinion. I'm kinda glad it wasn't put in 7

 

[mervyn797]

i kinda liked it, its light and sleek :D
check this

Spoiler:

there are just 4 icons in that though :P

 

[robin9211]

ask me? its pretty cool.
i want 7 now!!!

 

[mervyn797]

dude, that thing actually rotates. its awesome!
theres no need to move the mouse, just scroll!

 

[donavannj]

I'm perfectly fine without that in Windows 7... doesn't look too desirable.

 

[Spherical Ice]

Ew no. That looks horrid. But then again most of 7 and Vista looks ew.

 

[mervyn797]

well, i donno y you all dont like it lol, no prob.
need a vid so see how it actually looks?

 

[Spherical Ice]

Not really. It won't shift my opinion on how crap Vista and 7 is. I only like the aurora wallpaper that comes with it. But you can google it and use it on XP anyway, so. :|

 

[Jesus oƒ Suburbia]

I had it, In vista, took up too much space and just wouldn't fit, too ugly.

 

[twocows]

There are plenty of dock programs out there already, many free, and they work fine. This just looks like more bloat I'd have to disable. :/

On the other hand, it does look like a good concept. If there was an access key sequence you had to press to enable it, I'd be for it; if it was always on, or there was a single key to enable it, I'd be against it, though.

 

[Gerri Shin]

I'm glad it wasn't kept in. Most people I know of would rather the middle of their screen be blank so that they could use a wallpaper they like to look at. This 'feature', while useful, would simply be an eyesore and blocks a good section of the wallpaper's focal point defeating the purpose of the wallpaper. Honestly I like the improvements made to the taskbar, and I'm currently happy with the final product. If I want a dock I'll either grab Object dock free or live without.

 

[mervyn797]

the best place to keep it is the bottom right part of the desktop with only a quarter of it visible.

 

[LethalTexture]

Not really. It won't shift my opinion on how crap Vista and 7 is. I only like the aurora wallpaper that comes with it. But you can google it and use it on XP anyway, so. :|

Um, 7 isn't crap. =/ It's a HUGE step-up fro Vista.

As to the circle dock, I don't like the look of it, and wouldn't make anything easier for me.

 

[pokejungle]

Yeah, now that you can pin things to the start bar very easily it's dock-ish enough for me.

Plus a dock right in the middle would have to be called up by some wacky key combo. How is that easier than me just clicking a program I've pinned to the task bar?

 

[mervyn797]

there isnt any "whacky" key combo. xD
just F1 lol

 

[donavannj]

there isnt any "whacky" key combo. xD
just F1 lol

But that's the shortcut button for the help tab in Google Chrome. ;) So it wouldn't work out for everyone.

 

[Captain Hobo.]

It looks cool I want to get Windows 7.

 

[Doonesbury]

This was actually a pretty stupid idea. It might look half decent had they put it over a solid color background and not made it transparent, but it'd get stale pretty fast. Maybe have an option to disable it?

 

[twocows]

This was actually a pretty stupid idea. It might look half decent had they put it over a solid color background and not made it transparent, but it'd get stale pretty fast. Maybe have an option to disable it?

Now that'd be the story of Microsoft's life. They didn't put an option to disable the ribbon in any of their software (to the best of my knowledge, though workarounds do exist), and that's gotten a lot more heat than this ever would.