r/Windows11 • u/Important_End2512 • 15h ago
Concept / Design thinking I finally got the taskbar as a dock the right way
took me a lot of work and trials but finally I made it (I think) - transform the mundane taskbar to something better- either with animated cool effects or as a dock, while keeping it system derived and based on the actual taskbar. What do you think about my work?
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u/Important_End2512 2h ago
btw I did some more stuff (some free and open source) for more things I think windows should have, you can look at it at juicy-apps.com
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u/DrakeStone 8h ago edited 4h ago
I like it. What did you use to get the taskbar like that?
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u/Important_End2512 5h ago
I split the work into 2 parts: first was to get animated "simple" effects on the taskbar itself. second was to read the information from the taskbar and recreate it for magnification effect. they can also work together but still have work to make it perfect together (like, magnification with light sweep etc.). my main concern was to avoid modding.
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u/Massive_Scientist194 8h ago
Windhawk recreated rocket dock
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u/Important_End2512 4h ago
my whole concept is to use a native design and not implement a modding app.
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u/misuny 8h ago
Windhawk does this and so much more. Go get it from GitHub.
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u/Important_End2512 4h ago
I know it and rainmeter and even used y's dock and rklauncher at the day they were "new". none of them is easy to use, no config and seamless, and rely on the taskbar itself, and they always crush at some point/don't gave correct messages count in whatsapp and t-bird/lag when system is busy working hard etc......
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u/misuny 4h ago
Lol down voting me for sharing a program that does something similar to what you're showing. You didn't even mention anything regarding what you did or used.
Also, I only mentioned one program, which I use and have had no issues using it on my computer. It was quite easy to setup. If you're not going to explain what you did and just show people your desktop don't get upset when someone else shares information.
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u/Important_End2512 3h ago
I'm not downvoting anyone :) what I did was as I wrote: got basic hover effects on the taskbar as an upper layer - so I can clearly see the mouse-over. then moved on to animating it and so on ... no configuring or collecting PNGs etc. I used many docks and apps and always had the same problems: dock freezes when I render because of CPU and GPU load. mis-reading of the programs status the way it's displayed on the taskbar. getting wrong icons for apps. can't access the systray and so on,.,,
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