I have decided hence forth to no longer contemplate making Docky a side
dockable Dock.  I have come to this conclusion for several reasons and
did not reach it lightly.  I admit I put a considerable amount of time
and effort into making this a posibility, but the more I develop Docky
the more I become convinced it will never be workable.

Unless anyone can provide a very good mockup of how summon mode would
work on a side dock, I do not feel it is worthwhile for me to continue
developing based on the idea that this will some day be possible.

My main concerns are as follows:
- Summon mode is ugly no matter how I mock it up
- There is LOTS of extra complexity for applets and painting services to
have to deal with a left/right orientation.  Adapting between top/bottom
is relatively easy however.
- Most importantly, I now feel that this is having a very large negative
impact on the code of Docky.

Therefor...  I will be branching docky shortly after 0.8.1 and removing
all code dealing with side dock implementation and cleaning up any
interfaces designed with it in mind.  After that merge we will close any
feature requests for side dock and pretty much recommend users wishing
for a side dock use the AWN rewrite.

Jason


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