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Why highlighting the item for the active application?

Asked by Marco Hunsicker

What's the point in highlighting the current application? I find this information both distracting and redundant. After all, the active application is most often right in front of me and I need no visual reinforcement in the dock. Maybe I'm too accustomed to the way the Mac OS X dock works, and this is a matter of adaption, but I would really prefer to be able to disable the highlighting.

Currently, it seems to be buggy anyway because sometimes the highlighting disappears. Don't know whether this is a common problem, though, I haven't tested Docky on a real system yet, only in a Virtual Box session. Thanks.

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Unyqe (young-vernon) said : 		#1

Docky isn't Mac OS X dock, I really like the visual reinforcement and you also mentioned a key phrase;

"After all, the active application is MOST OFTEN right in front of me".

MOST OFTEN is the key term, there may be a time where the the active window isn't that apparent.
Docky should maintain it's direction in this part of the project.
And to add a side note, just because Apple has done something doesn't mean its the best idea. For heaven's sake you can't even change the battery in an iPhone.

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Paul Burnham (mudrain911) said : 		#2

is there any chance that someone could point me in the direction of the image used for highlighting current applications? i would like to replace it with a transparent image if that is possible.

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Fabian Thoma (fabianthoma) said : 		#3

Well I'm not sure there is an image, because the color of it changes relatively to the colors in your application icon.
And as Unyqe I think it's pretty useful sometimes. Maybe an on/off switch would help you? Maybe something write to the long TODO-List.

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Chris S. (cszikszoy) said : 		#4

It isn't actually an image. On line 256 of Docky.Items.AbstractDockItem.cs, we have a method calledd AverageColor () that computes the average color of the icon and that is what we use to display the active application overlay.

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