Tuxbar

[chickpea]

Kinda not the "theme" of the week what with 3.4 out and all (installing tonight I CAN'T WAIT!!).

Anyway, I want to know if anyone has had any problems installing this SuperKaramba widget

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.ph ... ntent=7126

It is an OSX scrollbar clone. I would love to get this rolling, but I don't necessarily need any eyecandy headaches right now, if you know what I mean.

Anyone know anything about this widget?

[zouzou85]

superkaramba is installed in sabayon 3.4 by default. so you should have any probs with it.
for the osx bar clone, you might want to try something like:
kxdocker
avant-window-navigator
kiba-dock
gnome-dock
kool-dock
smooth-dock.

the one i like most is kxdocker, althought it is kinda old and and needs some tweaking.
to install kxdocker just do the following in console:

# layman -a xeffect

then,

emerge -1v kxdocker

then you should be albe to play around with it

[chickpea]

You are right about kxdocker, it's the best out of that bunch.

No need to add the xeffects overlay it's in portage:

http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?kxdocker-1.1.4a

Any reason why you would prefer kxdocker over Tuxbar?

Is SuperKaramba more resource intensive than Kxdocker? I would prefer, obviously to use as little system resources for this as possible.

Thanks

Bryan

[zouzou85]

Usually, superkaramba is not what eats your resources but the widgets that you use trought karamba.
i prefer kxdocker over the tuxbar because it is more configurable. i remember when i used kxdocker in SL3.3loop2, the CPU would be at 12-18% range, which was fine for me. but the tuxbar would flunctuate too much. CPU goes from 10% up TO 80% then down to 40% then UP to 90%, so i just let it go.
it really depends on how your system works with it.

EDIT: just forgot to tell you that kxdocker needs beryl or compiz so it won't have the black background.

[chickpea]

Cool thanks. I have 3.4a installed, with compiz-fusion up and running so no problem. Looks like I am going to go with kxdocker. I don't need that kind of fluctuation in my system resources with a silly eye-candy thing.

Thanks
Bryan