Classic? dockling problems

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Hey efoivx:

I'm having some problems with the Classic? dockling that you've created. I love it just for the Classic indication capabilities, but I've got some problems with it.

First off, the Dockling is still not loading when the Dock first loads. I have to restart the dock for the Dockling to load. I only have 4 docklings in my Dock: Vanity Dockling, SETIdockling, SlashDock, and then Classic? Any ideas?

Second: I've had this weird graphic appearing on the right side of my menu bar every once in a while. It's pretty rare, so it's not that much of a problem, but it happened today and I managed to snap a pic of it. I'm almost positive it is related to your Dockling because it looks like the Classic Startup icon, but with an aqua blue 9, which is your graphic. See the attached pic of my menu bar.

Third: The "Shutdown Classic" and "Restart Classic" options take a while to activate. Can you figure out why? It's usually much faster shutting down or restarting when pressing the buttons directly in the Classic system pref pane. (Oh, and while I'm at it, would you mind adding a "Force Quit Classic" option to the Dockling? That would rock.)

Fourth: Just a tiny little thing that annoys me. In the "Classic Control Panels" submenu, there's an item called ".DS_Store" which is usually invisible, but it is appearing in your submenu. Is there any way for you to supress this? Thanks.


Awesome piece of software. And I'm glad I registered it.

 

[efoivx]

Q.

>First off, the Dockling is still not loading when the Dock first
>loads. I have to restart the dock for the Dockling to load. I only
>have 4 docklings in my Dock: Vanity Dockling, SETIdockling, SlashDock,
>and then Classic? Any ideas?

A.
Some dock extras such as News grabbers like Mac Reporter and MacSlash
hog a lot of time when updating, ( I don't use seti so I don't know how
much it draws) Classic? Also likes to grab a good amount of that time
for checking... When you first startup up all those menu extras and dock
extras are trying to grab time from the SystemUIServer. There is little
I can do to help that since that is how the OS functions... The
alternative is to make Classic? Into an application again... This is an
option in the next version you can have a dock version or app version...
The app version is not hindered by the SystemUIserver.


Q.

>Second: I've had this weird graphic appearing on the right side of my
>menu bar every once in a while. It's pretty rare, so it's not that
>much of a problem, but it happened today and I managed to snap a pic
>of it. I'm almost positive it is related to your Dockling because it
>looks like the Classic Startup icon, but with an aqua blue 9, which is
>your graphic. See the attached pic of my menu bar.

A.
You may notice this with any application actually... It seems to be some
odd bug left over from the NS days of the OS it's actually a running
apps icon and I have seen it with several applications all completely
random.


Q.

>Third: The "Shutdown Classic" and "Restart Classic" options take a
>while to activate. Can you figure out why? It's usually much faster
>shutting down or restarting when pressing the buttons directly in the
>Classic system pref pane. (Oh, and while I'm at it, would you mind
>adding a "Force Quit Classic" option to the Dockling? That would
>rock.)

A.
Should be faster in the next version... I don't want to give out all my
surprises but I think you will be pleasantly surprised with version 1.5



Q.

>Fourth: Just a tiny little thing that annoys me. In the "Classic
>Control Panels" submenu, there's an item called ".DS_Store" which is
>usually invisible, but it is appearing in your submenu. Is there any
>way for you to supress this? Thanks.

A.
Also already taken care of in the next version as well as hidding many
of the control panels that are useless in Classic mode.

>Awesome piece of software. And I'm glad I registered it.

Thank you soooo much for your support it's with your support that we are
able to move forward and release version 1.5 and I think every one that
registered will be very very happy.



Cheers
Eddie