Configure bounce animation instead of glow

[Danielle Foré]

Converted from question:

Hi,
I really like plank,
after long time with cairo dock I installed plank in order to check why I moved to cairo.

So the only one thing that bothers me is that the notification animation when plank is hidden,
I would like to be able to configure that the animation will be a bounce animation instead of glow.

I tried to look how to configure the animation but haven't found it.
checked in the plank preferences GUI,
checked in: ~/.config/plank/dock1/settings
checked in: /usr/share/plank/themes/Numix/dock.theme (I'm using the Numix theme..)

I could not find the option to configure the animation in amy of the places above.

Please add the option to control the animation,
or please explain how to configure it, if the option already exists and I missed it..

Thanks for the help,
you are awesome and continue the great work :)

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

It's my personal opinion that we should remove these kinds of notifications from Plank. Modern desktops ship with a dedicated notification server that provides more context and detail than we do with a glow or a bounce. We should let the notification server take care of apps that want attention.

[eliash (elia-shreidler)]

Thanks Daniel,
I would like to agree with you,
I cannot speak for others, but in general. I almost never use the the dock to launch for new applications to to switch to an open one - it requires moving the mouse..
As a gnome use, I use the "Activities Overview" (super key) to start a new app,
to switch between apps I use alt+tab (and alt+`).

I can't explain why I like docks :)
but I do, especially plank..

About your comment - handling notifications,
unfortunately, at work, the policy is to use Ubuntu 12.04, so major updates for almost anything, especially not for gnome,
our mail app and messaging app, do not integrate with the notification server, so my only sign that a notification arrived is the pulse from plank (or bounce from cairo).

To summarize,
I agree that in a perfect world, the dock app would not need to worry about notifications,
but it's a great feature that helps where others fail.

Again thanks for your help :)