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Working on getting an update out soon.

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Okay I put out 0.12.1 hopefully that should fix things up.

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Actually I think this looks great. Wasn't this a planned option anyway?

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Just tested it; it contains a bug: when you hover over the icons of apps not running, they switch to default brightness again and stay that way. When you quit a running app, its icon turns dim, which is neat, but as soon as you hover over the icon, it turns bright again. (OS X 10.11.6)

But it looks promising, for sure. I just believe that folder (i.e. true directory) icons which are not bundle (app) icons, shouldn't be dimmed, because they can't be active or inactive like an application or other bundle (like a VM). The only exception could be the Trash folder icon. If it's empty, it's dimmed, if there's content, it's bright.

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You could also invert the mouse-over behavior: standard would be mouse over > bright-to-dim, inverted would be mouse-over > dim-to-bright … but maybe that's already the case, and that's where the bug originates ("sticky brightness").

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I'm also seeing that but also, on a reboot cDock is no longer working; I get the standard (ugly) Dock. Has SIMBL been updated? I'm running El Capitan, OS X 10.11.6.

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Any way to fix this?

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On Aug 27, 2016, at 8:16 AM, Iliyan D. [email protected] wrote:

Any way to fix this?

Howdy,

Interestingly, when I open cDock I always get a request for an admin password for cDockHelper. I'd expect that's relevant.

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Herb Schulz
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The change on mouseover is temporary. If you open an app and the quite it the icon goes dark.

I fixed the complete non-operation by going through the usual rigmarole of turning off SIP, rebooting and giving my password to get the OS to let cDockHelper to run, turning SIP back on and rebooting again. Of course now I'm back to the problem of the darkened app icons in the Dock.

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@JayBrown: If it was an option I'd turn it OFF; I have a fairly dark Desktop and like the brightness of the icons against that desktop through a transparent Dock. I can hardly make out the icons against my Desktop. And, as you mentioned it isn't even working correctly for what you want.

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Sigh... I just went back to 0.11.3 which works perfectly well with El Capitan and Yosemite (what I have on my systems). Under El Capitan I again had to disable SIP, run cDock and give permissions for cDockHelper to run and then enable SIP. All is running just fine again. Looking forward to 0.11.5; which I hope comes out soon. Maybe I'll check back here before installing it though. :-)

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@herbs I have a pretty dark desktop as well (dark gray), but that's precisely why bright icons in the Dock annoy me. I'm also running HazeOver, i.e. only the frontmost window is bright, the rest is dimmed, and also MenuEclipse, i.e. the menu bar is dimmed too most of the time. I like to focus, concentrate on what I'm working on, and I don't want bright & shiny stuff outside stealing that focus. But here we're entering the taste territory: some users will like this approach, other will like the default GUI. Both are fine.

Come to think of it: @w0lfschild … another option, instead of dimming closed/inactive apps (or in addition to dimming), is to desaturate the icons, remove all the color, i.e. have black&white (or rather grayscale) icons for closed/inactive apps (dimmed or not), and only icons of active apps have color. (Don't know if that's possible, though.)

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On Aug 27, 2016, at 6:47 PM, Joss Brown [email protected] wrote:

@herbs I have a pretty dark desktop as well (dark gray), but that's precisely why bright icons in the Dock annoy me. I'm also running HazeOver, i.e. only the frontmost window is bright, the rest is dimmed, and also MenuEclipse, i.e. the menu bar is dimmed too most of the time. I like to focus, concentrate on what I'm working on, and I don't want bright & shiny stuff outside stealing that focus. But here we're entering the taste territory: some users will like this approach, other will like the default GUI. Both are fine.

Come to think of it: @w0lfschild … another option, instead of dimming closed/inactive apps (or in addition to dimming), is to desaturate the icons, remove all the color, i.e. have black&white (or rather grayscale) icons for closed/inactive apps (dimmed or not), and only icons of active apps have color. (Don't know if that's possible, though.)

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Howdy,

Why not hide the Dock if it is too bothersome?

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Herb Schulz
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0.12.1 is working fine for me under 10.11.6. Thanks for the quick fix of 0.11.4! (I needed to go through the csrutil disable/enable gymnastics again, but I'm getting good at it.)

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On Aug 27, 2016, at 9:53 PM, Wolfgang Baird [email protected] wrote:

Okay I put out 0.12.1 hopefully that should fix things up.

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Howdy,

Thanks for the very quick work in getting 0.12.0 out so quickly! It works fine.

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Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

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