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AlistairMcMillan why do you keep removing a vital piece of information about the Docks origins? The OS X Dock and RISC OS Iconbar are practically similar. The RISC OS was the first to arrive with such a feature, you have to acknowledge that, —Preceding unsigned comment added by NorthMist ( talk • contribs) 01:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
U.S. patent 7,434,177 Ording , et al. October 7, 2008 anon
I've created this image some time ago to illustrate the article. It's entirely made of GNU/GPL graphics so there are no copyright issue. Could someone add it to the article? Laurent ( talk) 19:21, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Linux (being a kernel) does not implement any dock like features, like this article claims to do. Operating Systems which use Linux typically have dock like features from their respective user interfaces (such as GNOME, KDE, LXDE, Enlightenment etc.), which usually also run on non-linux using operating systems, like BSD systems, and to some extent Windows (KDE is at least working on it — I don't know how far they've gotten). Considering that a lot of domain experts cannot agree on just what an operating system is and when software is not part of the operating system, I suggest that focus be placed on describing which user interfaces, not operating systems, implement dock features. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.167.145.223 ( talk) 07:02, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
This article could benefit from a discussion of the Docky, Cairo Dock, and Enlightenment Dock. It is correct to point out that these are modules that can be incorporated into an OS, though the Enlightenment Dock is a part of the Enlightenment Desktop Environment.
This article is poorly written, unencyclopedic, and incomplete. I've considered rewriting it. Signature ( talk) 19:12, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Citations are definitely needed. For example, the date attributed to NEXTSTEP (1986) is two years earlier than the 0.8 release listed in Wikipedia's NEXTSTEP article. Where does the earlier date come from and who can be given credit for the Dock concept? Is the "dock" in NEXTSTEP really a dock as we now understand it?
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Would Windows 1.0's bar count as a dock? It looks similar to it and holds icons to minimized windows. Upon double clicking a icon, its corresponding window is restored. It's empty when there aren't any minimized windows as you can't dock programs to it, which makes me unsure about whether it could be considered a dock. - Wikizzer ( talk) 12:25, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Settlers (and both of its FOSS remakes) has a small "dock" at the bottom of the screen. The main viewport is the backdrop of the screen, extra viewports and command menus are made into individual windows.
Currently it redirects to the Taskbar article, no section. This is plainly wrong as that article, and the very term itself, primarily refers to Ms. Window's™️ taskbar.
There is a macOS section in that article, so we could just change the redirect slightly, adding the section.
However, there is also a Dock (macOS) article, so perhaps we should actually be redirecting there?
Or maybe the term Dock as it relates to "computing" is so unclear that this should be a disambiguation page? (can you even make a page that doesn't end in "(disambiguation)" a disambiguation page?)
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AlistairMcMillan why do you keep removing a vital piece of information about the Docks origins? The OS X Dock and RISC OS Iconbar are practically similar. The RISC OS was the first to arrive with such a feature, you have to acknowledge that, —Preceding unsigned comment added by NorthMist ( talk • contribs) 01:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
U.S. patent 7,434,177 Ording , et al. October 7, 2008 anon
I've created this image some time ago to illustrate the article. It's entirely made of GNU/GPL graphics so there are no copyright issue. Could someone add it to the article? Laurent ( talk) 19:21, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Linux (being a kernel) does not implement any dock like features, like this article claims to do. Operating Systems which use Linux typically have dock like features from their respective user interfaces (such as GNOME, KDE, LXDE, Enlightenment etc.), which usually also run on non-linux using operating systems, like BSD systems, and to some extent Windows (KDE is at least working on it — I don't know how far they've gotten). Considering that a lot of domain experts cannot agree on just what an operating system is and when software is not part of the operating system, I suggest that focus be placed on describing which user interfaces, not operating systems, implement dock features. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.167.145.223 ( talk) 07:02, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
This article could benefit from a discussion of the Docky, Cairo Dock, and Enlightenment Dock. It is correct to point out that these are modules that can be incorporated into an OS, though the Enlightenment Dock is a part of the Enlightenment Desktop Environment.
This article is poorly written, unencyclopedic, and incomplete. I've considered rewriting it. Signature ( talk) 19:12, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Citations are definitely needed. For example, the date attributed to NEXTSTEP (1986) is two years earlier than the 0.8 release listed in Wikipedia's NEXTSTEP article. Where does the earlier date come from and who can be given credit for the Dock concept? Is the "dock" in NEXTSTEP really a dock as we now understand it?
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83.104.51.74 (
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01:44, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
Would Windows 1.0's bar count as a dock? It looks similar to it and holds icons to minimized windows. Upon double clicking a icon, its corresponding window is restored. It's empty when there aren't any minimized windows as you can't dock programs to it, which makes me unsure about whether it could be considered a dock. - Wikizzer ( talk) 12:25, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Settlers (and both of its FOSS remakes) has a small "dock" at the bottom of the screen. The main viewport is the backdrop of the screen, extra viewports and command menus are made into individual windows.
Currently it redirects to the Taskbar article, no section. This is plainly wrong as that article, and the very term itself, primarily refers to Ms. Window's™️ taskbar.
There is a macOS section in that article, so we could just change the redirect slightly, adding the section.
However, there is also a Dock (macOS) article, so perhaps we should actually be redirecting there?
Or maybe the term Dock as it relates to "computing" is so unclear that this should be a disambiguation page? (can you even make a page that doesn't end in "(disambiguation)" a disambiguation page?)