*cough-cough* RightClick Too! *cough-cough* Virtual Desktops Too ! *cough-cough*

*cough*Object Edit, DriveScan, Component Tray, Object Sweeper*cough*

What kind of problems did you have with the betas?

I'm not sure if you can search by poster on these forums or not. If you can search for posts by brain21 and you will see explained in detail the number of problems I had with the STILL current build of OB.

For myself as well, WB is cool & everything, but as far as productivity and convenience OB is what I use CONSTANTLY. I would love to have a version that addresses all of my listed concerns, and if we could get that whole RSS feed & other plugins that came with 1.99b to work correctly that would be great.

If you want a list of things to fix for 2.0, just search for my posts!

(some are in the OB forum & I think I posted maybe a couple under DX by accident)

Thanks,

Brain21

I used to get so frustrated with the lack of progress in ObjectBar development, especially w.r.t other Object Desktop components and Stardock products. I'd report bugs, help out when I could etc. But every visit to Stardock Central or to the newsgroups and forums resulted in disappointment. Now that my subscription has lapsed (first time in about 5 years) each fruitless visit now makes me feel warm inside instead of hollow and sad. I'll still keep checking, but I've just given up holding my breath.
Rob

You know, no one has answered my original question.

There's a lack of movement on multiple products atm due to QA and management bandwith (or lack thereof). A lot of effort is going into Galactic Civilizations II and we're having to rob from Peter, Paul, and Mary right now.

See Brads post here: Link

Regarding Brads Post:
What do you think about making Objectbar to a nice game?
Maybe someone is fixing the bugs and implementing new features like png support, transparency and 24h music?

Now this Thread is nearly one month old and still no answere....

Look like the internal communication is also non existing

so, who is with me to declare OB 2.0 death (and so will my subscription )

Felix

Look like the internal communication is also non existing

I am not sure I agree. Nakor and Brad [of Stardock] have both commented that Stardock is currently focused on GalCiv2 [a game I am very much looking forward to].

External communication has been lacking in the past but has been better the last while.

I too would like to see OB updated. But Windowblinds 5, Icon Packager, DesktopX ahve progressed and I use them too. There are only so many resources to go around. I'll bet there is more business in WB than in OB. Sometimes you have to choose.

If I didn't play Stardock games and didn't use WB skins I'd probably be more upset. But I don't recall Stardock promising me an OB update either. I bought it at a particular version for specific features with the ability to recieve future updates [if there were any] (while my subscription is good). I've gotten what I paid for.

I think that if Stardock is going to announce an upcoming version, they need to give general dates and update the users if that date is slipping and why. In the end it would make for happier customers.

I think Jumanji and Ikku hit the nail on the head.

They've really seemed to have dropped the ball on this one. I, for one, will let my money speak for me.

I've made posts to this thread and others related to response times on various apps (SVD, RightClick) and made some tongue-in-cheek posts to this thread (see above). I am sure that Brad and Co are very busy and dedicated to getting products to market as seen by the WB5 release and all the preceding Beta's and the post WB5 patches.

So, I am sure the GC-II will be out soon and receive whatever needed attention.

The problem that many of us are having is the peripheral apps that have been produced and subsequently embraced and heavily depended upon by the Community have taken a back-back-back of the bus seat while all the other applications garner all the attention. We wait months (and > a year on OB2) for updates (even newer Betas) of our favorite apps and keep seeing all the others updated much more frequently.

In another post, someone mentioned that WB5 is great eye candy, but the SVD, Right Click and OB apps are the productivity, time saving apps that people REALLY need (my two cents on that). Maybe we're all wrong since those are the $$$ makers there and we should sit back and shut up.

Those who can't get what they want here...might find it somewhere else (i.e. Virtual Dimension, http://www.virt-dimension.sourceforge.net for SVD due to bugs).

I've logged at least once a day to check and sometimes post for updates to these apps and have gotten more and more frustrated (and taken to writing really long posts) like some of the others in the Community. My subscription comes due some time in May. I'll have to decide which way to go when the time comes. We'll see what happens between now and then.

My subscription comes due some time in May. I'll have to decide which way to go when the time comes

I agree with you whole heartedly that there comes a point when one has to evaluate the matrix of what you are getting compared to what you want. It sucks sometimes.

I like Objectbar. I think I liked it most when I was using 95 and wanted an XP interface. It was eye-candy+, ya know. And I used the spin-off product (Right-Click] for a while, but objectdock+ did most of the things I wanted and DesktopX covered the others.
But I think it is a disservice to Stardock clients to have an app fade aware into abandonware. End-of-life the thing or don't. But if you're going to claim that it's an active product, try to make it sort of . . . you know . . . active.

Anyone who has been with Stardock any length of time knows that you guys rock with updates and betas and what not. For a while SDC had a new update on one app or another every week. Folks get used to that sort of behaviour and expect it from all the apps.

Communication is the key here I think. [And I think Stardock has been making more of an effort lately, but more is better.] If your going to announce progress to your user base, show progress or the reasons why not. Stardock has an incredible user base; they can handle the truth.

Wonder why this takes so long?

why can't they just say, screw OB!!

anyone know another product that can do the same?
or almost the same?

Felix

Stardock has an incredible user base; they can handle the truth.

Oh no! Not the truth! aaaaaaaaaaaargh!