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KxDocker is an innovative docker for KDE based on the engine from osXBar.

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http://linuxlandit.blogspot.com – KXDocker is a program for the Linux operating system created by Ing. Stefano Zingarini. It resembles the "Dock" of Mac OS X in that it is mainly used as an application launcher. It supports themes, plugins and a few extra features (there is documentation on creating your own themes). Other such docks available for Linux and KDE include Kiba-dock (implements physics simulation allowing the application icons to be dragged around and initially looked to be more suitable for the GNOME desktop environment), Kooldock and Ksmoothdock. While Kiba-dock is popular for its tag-along with 3D window mana (HowTos)

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Submitted by seck on 03/23/2012 – Made popular on 03/23/2012

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Dock applications is really cool way to get quicker access to your installed applications, directories, or files, it’s fully customized with different desktop and window managers. you will find a lot of docks available to use with different features for extra plugins, docks applets, and themes. here will list 7 of the best docks available so far for linux desktops.

To have or not to have a dock in Linux is really dependent on individual preferences. While popular Linux distros such as Ubuntu and Fedora do not come with a dock by default, there are plenty of dock applications around that one can easily install and create a dock for their desktop.

KDocker will help you dock any application into the system tray. This means you can dock openoffice, xmms, firefox, thunderbird, anything! Just point and click. Works for all NET WM compliant window managers - that includes KDE, GNOME, Xfce, Fluxbox and many more. Features.

Cairo Dock 3.0 released 1 year 4 weeks ago

The new version (3.0) of Cairo Dock - an animated application launcher for Linux that can be run in Gnome, KDE and Xcffe - has recently been released with many changes, improvements and bug fixes. The most important change in this release is that Cairo Dock now use GTK3 for a better integration in a Gnome desktop. Other prominent enhancements are: The taskbar has been greatly enhanced.

My favorite Dock Avant Window Navigator, one of the best Docks available so far, it’s fully customizable with themes, extra plugins, extra applets, also working on many window managers, and many distributions such as Ubuntu , Gentoo, Fedora, …

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS uses Unity as the default Desktop Environment, which is based on Gnome 3. So Gnome 3 themes (window themes + GTK themes) works well in Unity as well as Gnome shell environment.

AllTray is an application which docks other application software into the system tray (“notification area”) of a desktop environment such as GNOME, KDE, or XFCE. It aims to be independent of both desktop environment and window manager. With AllTray you can dock any application with no native tray icon (like Evolution, Thunderbird, Terminals) into the system tray.

There are lot of Dock Apps available for GNU/Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint 13. Some of the most popular dock Apps are – GLX-Dock (Cairo Dock with OpenGL), Docky and AWN (Avant Window Navigator). Dock App is not just an eye candy app, it also makes lot of things much easier (such as multiple window/app management, easy shortcuts for complex and repetitive tasks etc).

Cairo Dock 2.4.0 Released 1 year 33 weeks ago

Cairo-Dock is a unified dock-like interface for your desktop. Besides a cool dock, it provides a taskbar, and many applets that can be placed either inside the dock or on your desktop, at your convenience ! It is highly customizable and comes with a lot of ready-to-use themes. PPA This PPA will install cairo dock in your Ubuntu desktops (yes !