Dock Reflections
By
@omeriadon
- 3 Devlogs
- 5 Total hours
An app that shows dock reflections on mac. uses ammonia, needs disabling SIP on macOS.
Ship #2
💀 Cursed
@omeriadon
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Dock Reflections
I made a bunch of improvements to Dock reflections from the first version, including more options, and I also found it was kinda hogging up cpu and gpu because it kept rerendering.
I tried to lower it, but I had some difficulty because this code wasn’t running in my app its in some other process (the dock), so i couldnt really control it. and i couldnt cache the rendered image either because when the user hovers over the dock it magnifies and stuff.
in all i got it down to like 20% cpu, which admittedly isn’t very good but on a more powerful machine i think its worth it!
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Dock Reflections
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I added a red ring around apple music when music is currently playing. i added animation at first but i found it too distracting, so i removed it and now its just a static red ring. it really pops now, which is really nice 🥰
@omeriadon
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Dock Reflections
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The last version had a bug where it couldn’t colour tinted and clear icons properly, i have fixed that, and i think it looks really nice now!
Ship #1
@omeriadon
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Dock Reflections
I made an ammonia tweak that makes your Dock very pretty, with customisable options to adjust various things like blur opacity etc.
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Dock Reflections
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This is quite a short project honestly. The way this works is that using Ammonia, which is a system tweak and extension loader for macOS, I inject some code into the macOS Dock that replaces the open-app indicator with my version as you can see below, and it adds a view below the app icons of the “reflected” app icons. I also made a small utility app to adjust these values in. This injection is unsafe and can crash your mac, and needs disabling multiple security options, so doing this isn’t recommended for most people, but I really like how these look so I’ll keep it. 🥰
