[Xmonad] A dock in xmonad

[Dave Harrison]

Dave Harrison wrote:
> Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
>> dave:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I was just wondering, are there any plans or ideas about how a dock could be
>>> incorporated into xmonad ?  Is there a 3rd party dock that could be used ?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Dave
>> What kind of behaviour would it have?
> 
> Primarily I'm looking for something that will grab and contain the "dock icons"
> that alot of programs provide (I'm thinking things like amarok, most instant
> messenger clients [kopete, gaim etc], most power management tools, volume
> controls etc etc).
> 
> I'm sure it's more complex than it sounds, but there's no more behaviour I'd
> want from such a dock than the above.

I've also just had a friend point this link out to me, that acts as a standard
for how docks and other desktop components need to behave

http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html