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Aren’t the panel widgets in e.g. KDE the same concept?

• fullstop 2y ago
  Sort of, but dock apps all had to fit within a 64x64 pixel square. There was something nice about the constraint and how clever people were about fitting information within that square.
  • badsectoracula 2y ago
    Note that while 64x64 is the default, it is not the only size - you can configure the dock to use "icons" (dock/window/etc blocks) of sizes from 24x24 up to 240x240. Though in practice most dockapps are limited at 64x64 (there have been some in recent years updated to allow other sizes from people who want to use Window Maker in HiDPI monitors) and using a different size has them centered (it might be possible to use the X11 composition extension to scale them in the future though, Window Maker already uses it to make previews for "miniaturized" -aka minimized- windows).