Introduction on Our New Dock's Design Concept

Along with the release of Deepin 2014 Alpha, we have received much of our users’ feedback on using it. Here we want to express our gratitude to every friend.

 

Since the new Dock is under development, some of its new functions haven’t been realized. Many users don’t know where the trays are. Hence, we will give a brief introduction on the design concept of our new Dock and trays so that users can understand it better.

 

First of all, let’s have a look at the layout of our new Dock.

The new Dock is made up of two parts--the traditional Dock & tray (system-level and program-level). When you click the Dock panel, the functional options(display of tray of system-level and display of Dock) will pop up. In this way, our users can customize the displaying way of trays of system-level and that of Dock.

We'll not repeat the functions of traditional Dock. we are now mainly focusing on the tray design.

 

System-level 

System-level trays

"System state control" function will automatically pop up if the mouse pointer hovers over the system state tray.

The “system setting” page will pop up if you left click the system-state tray.

The "run" and "undock" functions will pop up if you right click the system-state tray.

 

Network tray

 

The “network state control” function will pop up automatically if the mouse pointer hovers over the network tray.

The “system setting-network” page will pop up if you left click the network tray.

The "run" and "undock" functions will pop up if you right click the network tray.

Audio tray

 

The “audio control” function will pop up automatically if the mouse pointer hovers over the audio tray.

The “system setting-audio” page will pop up if you left click the audio tray.

The "run" and "undock" functions will pop up if you right click the audio tray.

USB device tray

The “USB device control” function will pop up automatically if the mouse pointer hovers over the USB device tray.

The “system setting-default program (auto-play)” page will pop up if you left click the USB device tray.

The "run" and "undock" functions will pop up if you right click the USB device tray.

Power tray

 

The current quantity of electricity will be shown automatically if the mouse pointer hovers over the power tray.

The “system setting-power” page will pop up if you left click the power tray.

The “power control” and "undock" functions will pop up if you right click the power tray.

Program-level tray

"D Zone"

 

Since Deepin 2014, we assemble all trays of program-level in the “D Zone” for convenience of users’ managing trays of program-level.

More trays of program-level will be shown if you click the “expand” button in the “D Zone”.

“All trays of program-level” will pop up automatically under auto-switch if the mouse pointer hovers over the “D Zone” tray.

The corresponding program will pop up if you left click one of the trays of program-level shown in “D Zone”.

The menu of the right-hand button of the corresponding program will pop up if you right click one of the trays of program-level shown in “D Zone”.

Other functions
The “show/hide desktop” function will be booted if you left click the Dock panel.

The “Dock display” function will pop up if you right click the Dock panel.

Conclusion

That’s all for the introduction of the design of our new Dock. You are welcome to leave a message to share with us any of your ideas or give us any improvement suggestions on the new Dock.

Haha, maybe you will have an opportunity to do interactive online-talk with our beautiful designers. Don’t miss it!

 

 

 

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