Taskbar for Ubuntu?

Tired of this white crap... need a good taskbar replacement...

Where to find one?

 

Change it's colour. Or make it transparent.

 

I'd much rather have a real taskbar...

Is there a site that has one? I'd kindof hate to make one for myself...

 

What do you mean "real" taskbar? Is the Gnome taskbar fake?

Maybe if you explained in greater detail, we could help you better. This goes for all your questions.

 

I agree with Lysander. The taskbar is just as good (if not better) than a Windows taskbar. Although, to be honest, it isn't called a taskbar. It's called a panel. And the beauty of the panel is that you can customize it to your heart's content. You can have one panel, or you can have four. You can have everything on the top panel (including the "taskbar"), and then put all your launchers on the bottom panel. You can put the menu on the bottom panel, and put the "taskbar" on the left side panel. It really is up to you. And you can change the color, make it transparent, translucent, or even give it a background picture.

 

I agree with Ly and notebook_ftw. We dont have enough information about what you want done. And whatever you want done can probably already be done within Gnome.

 

He may be referring to the Gnome style, which is unfamiliar to Windows users. He probably wants something more KDE-style, like mine. See: http://data.quelorant.com/704desktop.png

Granted, I've customized it myself, for instance I moved the Quick Launch to the right, and made myself a little Character Selector panel that autohides at the top left of my screen, but is that what you mean?

- Trip

 

I hate to thread-jack, but why do you have Internet explorer on Linux?

 

Website testing is the usual reason Sometimes for some ActiveX plugins, stuff like Exchange's crappy web access that doesn't work right in any browser other than IE.

 

There are also some websites that don't work correctly in anything other than IE. My company has several.

 

For websites that don't grant me entrance for using anything else.

I was trying to listen to a net radio station (The feed of 97.9 HD3 WIYY Baltimore, if you must know) and it claimed that it couldn't detect my platform. I used ies4linux to put IE on and then figured out where the stream was and it streamed through Firefox just fine.

- Trip

 

Actually all I meant is a taskbar image file.

The original image file is white, and I'd like it to look good, rather nottake a picture of the vista tasbar and steal it, as that would look odd....

 

You can go to the gnome apperance options and choose a new color for it.

 

You can also pick a image file.

I'd like a image file that looks good.

 

I'm a fan of making mine transparent, fits with the wallpaper I use.

 

Any .png file should work just fine.

 

www.gimp.org You might also look around gnome-look.org and see what people have there.

 

http://www.gnome-look.org has a TON of themes... check one called Neutronium if you like dark themes...

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Neutronium?content=46153

if you're not running Beryl or Compiz, you'll want both the GTK theme (buttons, scrollbars, etc,) and the Metacity theme (window borders)

 

You can see all real tasks using "ps -ux".
The X-Window task bar(or rather panel) is exactly work like XP. In fact it looks a lot better if you check the multiple desktops, it will show you windows you've opened in different desktops. But, it mostly for better looking, not really useful for normal users.

I guess you are still new to gnome/kde stuff. Need time to get use to.

 

how did they make the dock and top taskbar

 

The screen shot you've shown is set like this:
1. You move main panel down to bottom, and just delete the original bottom panel.
2. You add one panel with nothing and put it on top.
3. Right click this new panel, select Add to Panel, then you can select any application or make a menu. Just anything you like.

The dock could come from gdesklet or kdock.

 

You can actually get the MacOS-style menubar along the top that changes with each program that is opened.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=241868

kinda nifty.