Is there a better Mac dock simulator than AWN?

[DGeeez]

For all of it's nonsense (leopards, tigers, and bears, oh my), the Mac OSx has a feature which everyone seems to like - when the mouse pointer passes over an icon, it expands, making the target program, utility, or document launch that much easier, with just one click.

This feature is copied for a working Windows add-on, and it's a standard feature in the DreamLinux distro. But when I go looking for something to produce this feature in Ubuntu, the gurus for this distro point to the AWN dock, which is available at tutorial sites like "Turn Your Ubuntu Intrepid Into Mac OSX Leopard" (I don't think links are allowed here). I could be missing something, but if AWN specifically, and truly simulates the Leopard version of Mac, then Leopard is more than a deviation from the norm which made Apple popular, and then I can't believe that even Apple's users would tolerate it.

When the mouse passes over an AWN dock icon, it does not expand, but it BOUNCES! Also, after playing whack-a-mole with your icons, AWN won't launch your target with a single click, you have to click twice - under the conditions, this can be a tedious challenge. There's something fundamentally wrong with anybody who has experienced the difference, and would call me picky for complaining after they wasted my time with this, under the purportion that they are in any way similar! The regular Mac effects are stress-reducing, the AWN bounce effect is the most ridiculous headache-maker anybody ever thought of - if Apple execs ever allowed a product like this to hit the market, then they must have had some weird dope going around the board room. Which is why I doubt, despite not knowing whether I've specifically met the Leopard, that AWN truly simulates any mac feature.

Also, AWN is so unstable that it crashes whenever I maximize a window, or start a video clip.

The short of it is that AWN, which is somehow widely (within Ubuntu-world) purported to imitate the Mac dock, doesn't do so at all, or is as different as black and white from the most copied Mac-dock. If the Mac dock has remained fundamentally the same throughout the OSx versions, then, considering that it's been produced for other systems, why isn't there a valid Mac dock simulator for Ubuntu?

Is there a valid, and stable Mac-doc simulator for Ubuntu, which produces expanding (NOT bouncing), one-click icons (no matter what others say, AWN doesn't cut it for either on my reasonably-qualified machine)?

Thanks.

[Haarlem]

If you use Gnome, Avant looks nice.

[DGeeez]

If you use Gnome, Avant looks nice.

Thanks for your opinion, but I don't share it.

The issue is not whether some people think AWN looks nice, but the FACT that it does not do what it's promoters claim that it does.

I've noted that the web site which I mentioned was last updated for Intrepid, and I now use Jaunty (gnome), therefore some incompatibility is possible. However, if I am the only AWN user who is getting bouncing (not expanding) icons which require double-clicking, that is a FACT which would be helpful.

If, however, you get the above conditions from AWN, you like it just that way, AND you think it's Mac-like, in that case there's really something wrong with you.

[rokytnji]

Some options
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CairoDock

Explore Your World: Install Wbar In Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04)

[DGeeez]

Some options

This site will not allow me to include another user's url in my reply!

Cairo-Dock

Your World: Install Wbar In Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04)

Holy crap, to think that I had quit believing! What a huge difference - Cairo-dock doesn't have just the best of Mac, but the best of the Vista widget sidebar as well!

While I may never understand why so many users corroborate the false claims of AWN, they need to try out Cairo - the difference is like black and white.

Thanks so much for showing me something that delivers what it claims, and then better!