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Kiba-dock is AWESOME!

Posted on 10:28 AM by syah nooraiman

Still find your right dock? Well, i've been using several docks available for ubuntu, but nothing come close with kiba-dock. Avant window navigator is just too buggy for me to use it. When it came to kiba dock,everything is perfect :)

With Kiba-dock.

I dont mean that AWN or any other dock is bad,there's many people love it and used it. What i'm trying to say is you should try this dock,i'm sure it will gonna blow you away :D. Installing kiba-dock is also simple :)

First install the build dependencies.

sudo aptitude remove automake1.4


sudo apt-get install fakeroot automake1.9 build-essential libpango1.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgconf2-dev libglitz-glx1-dev librsvg2-dev libglade2-dev libxcomposite-dev subversion libtool libgtop2-dev python-gtk2-dev libgnome-menu-dev libgnomeui-dev libgnomevfs2-dev intltool libxml2-dev libglitz1-dev libcairo2 libdbus-1-dev libgtop2-7 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomeui-0 librsvg2-2 python-feedparser libasound2-dev libsdl1.2-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer0.10-0 pidgin-dev libpurple-dev

Then make a directory for kiba.

mkdir kiba-dock
cd kiba-dock
svn co https://kibadock.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kibadock/trunk/akamaru/ akamaru
svn co https://kibadock.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kibadock/trunk/kiba-dock/ kiba-dock
svn co https://kibadock.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kibadock/trunk/kiba-plugins/ kiba-plugins
svn co https://kibadock.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kibadock/trunk/kiba-dbus-plugins/ kiba-dbus-plugins

Just enter the command below (each line at a time)

cd akamaru/
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr
sudo make install
cd ..

cd kiba-dock/
./autogen.sh
sudo make install
cd ..

cd kiba-plugins/
./autogen.sh
sudo make install
cd ..

cd kiba-dbus-plugins/
./autogen.sh
sudo make install
cd ..

To run it,type in Terminal :

kiba-dock

Or if you wanna make it appear everytime you enter ubuntu, Select Sessions from System>Preferences>Session and add a new one and enter these :

Name : Kiba
Command : kiba-dock

And you're ready to go :)