ODPlus: Tabbed Docks at Screen Edge

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I haven't seen this issue reported, so I hope it's just me being stupid. (Did I really just say that I hoped I was stupid???)

When I attach a tabbed dock to the left or right edge of my screen, it does not automatically shift from a horizontal to vertical orientation. It acquires the "drawer" behavior, but it does so from the short side of a horizontal rectangle instead of from the long side of a vertical rectangle. So what I get is a long, skinny horizontal dock that slides out from the edge with all the tabs bunched up on the opposite short side. To get the tabbed dock to display like the screenshot at the Stardock site: https://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/PlusShots/Previe3_small.jpg , I have to manually resize all of the dock edges.

It's not a big issue, but it took me more than a couple of hours (I'm not saying how much more...) to figure out the resizing trick. And this was *after* I figured out how to resize a horizontal dock to accommodate tabs with long names!

I'm running Windows XP Pro, SP1 on a dual-head ATI Radeon 9800 Pro with the display set to stretch across two monitors. Disabling one monitor has no effect on the issue. Interestingly (but in a good way), I can attach the tabbed dock to either side of the "seam" between the two monitors. The dock will attach to the left side of the seam (right side of the left monitor) if the "at right" radio button is ed in Dock Settings...>Positioning>Show dock as a drawer.

-Jeff

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It's not a bug, if that's what you're thinking, but simply the way it works. If the tabbed dock somehow automatically resized, you'd have less control on how your docks worked. For example, I have one dock set at the top of the screen, that slides out as a long vertical drawer. That's how I want it to work. If it were to auto-resize, I couldn't do this.

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But you had to resize that dock, didn't you?

The default behavior is to have a horizontal dock at the top of the screen. All I'd like to see is that a tabbed dock placed on the screen edge default to vertical orientation with the tabs arranged on the right or left side. Then if you wanted to do a long skinny dock effect, you could resize as desired.

So I guess all I'm asking is for the default behavior of tabbed dock to be changed when it is placed at the left or right edge of the screen.

FWIW, I would be very sad if the resizing behavior went away!

Jeff

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Maybe they could add some sorta lock dock settings feature or have auto-resizing, but be able to turn it on and off

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