[hushpuppy]

You are entitled to prefer to use whatever you want to use, but you are only the dictator of reality in your own mind.

Also Docks are terrible UI. They are annoying, take up too much space, and you can never really find a good place to move them so they are out of the way.

The Apple Dock was something designed to look cool and fresh in order to sell a bunch of G3 and G4 iMacs back in the day, but it's a step backwards from even Windows 95's taskbar.

Gnome devs staying away from that is one of the more laudable decisions they made in terms of design.

[ilovecaching]

There's a reason why the GNOME devs have screenshots of Apple UIs in their design docs. The GNOME devs are not secretly geniuses of good design at the mercy of an ignorant world. If you don't like the Dock constantly being visible it's called autohiding and it's been around for awhile. If a user wants to switch apps they don't want to completely switch screens to make a trivial decision they make thousands of times a day. They don't want to guess what apps they have open. They want to move their cursor to the bottom of the screen and pick an app on a little bar that lets them continue to see what they were doing beforehand, lets them see what they have open while continuing to work on what they want to work on. GNOMEs visionary UI is a complete misunderstanding of desktop UX and they are simply too prideful to admit defeat and go with something that people are already familiar with and would actually make normal people happy.

[egypturnash]

Auto hide makes them work fine, IMHO.