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Hey, buddy. Advice is free. Not a bot, but if you're not knowledgeable about your particular issue to recognize that my response is obviously not AI, you need to do more research. Just telling you my knowledge and experience for free, buddy.
You “answered” by giving me parenthetical information and not actually even addressing the specific thing I asked. I just don’t understand why you’d bother doing that. Advice is free? Yeah it would be but that’s not what you did. You just said some things and ignored the very specific issue I’m having.
I can appreciate if someone tried to help but could not, but what you told me has nothing to do with my issue.
Also, I said no offense and I genuinely meant it. No need for name calling. This isn’t an attack it’s just I’m very confused by you.
Friend, your post is incredibly vague, and you've yet to fill in the details. Nobody here can write you a script that does exactly what you want without details. If you're looking for that, head over to the Gnome mail boards. You have the freedom to do so because it's open source. We're just people here trying to help.
That’s a helpful suggestion thank you! Sincerely. Let me try to clarify: with any docks that I have used (dash to dock, plank, and whatever comes by default in Ubuntu which I think is a modified plank, same with elementary), when you fill up the length of the visible dock area and add more icons, they are hidden. You can then use your mousewheel / touchpad scroll to slide the icons so as to scroll to the hidden ones.
Now, my touchscreen works fine and I can do things like scroll web pages, tap icons to launch, tap fields in an application and even type in the on-screen touch keyboard.
But what I cannot do is move the dock icons to scroll them along the dock to reveal the hidden ones that are past the dock’s end.
In theory since it’s a scrolling function, the intuitive thing would be to drag them with your finger using the touchscreen. But this doesn’t actually work. Clearly, it is not coded in the same way that most things are that respond to that kind of interaction.
I tried using a few dock applications and on a few distros. It doesn’t work anywhere.
So that’s my goal - to be able to drag/scroll the contents of the dock to get to the ones that are hidden past the end.
So, as I replied, stop using the Dock altogether. Spend the time to use one more click into the exploded view of all apps, and use touchscreen like that. It solves your problems with only one extra touch. Gnome is not designed as a mobile-style interface as you wish, but with one touch it does what you want.
Ok well, that’s telling me to stop wanting to do what I’m trying to do, and instead do something else. I mean…. Do you see how that’s not an answer at all.
You’re allowed to just say you don’t know how or if it can be done at all. But telling me just don’t do that is altogether pointless and just responding just to respond. Why do so many people do this and think it’s perfectly useful, I’ll never understand.
Write your own code.
Ask the current dev team to support this.
Script it.
Fork the other repos I mentioned to fix your specific use case.
There's no boundary here. You're free to do whatever you want. Nobody is telling you to stop looking for a solution.