Unity is a powerful desktop and netbook environment that brings consistency and elegance to the Ubuntu experience.
Development on it has stopped on april 2017 (See ubports unity8 for an active fork).
Avant Window Navigator is a dock for the Free Desktop which shows your launchers and open applications. It also contains support for extensions, via plugins for third-party applications, which communicate with the dock with DBus, and via applets, which allows for workspace switchers, system trays
... [More], clocks, etc., to be embedded in the dock. These applets can be written in C, Vala, or Python.
Awn currently requires compositing support in order to run. Window managers which support compositing include (but are not limited to) Metacity (part of GNOME), Xfwm4 (part of Xfce), KWin (part of KDE4.x), and Compiz. There are also standalone compositing managers, for window managers without support built-in: Cairo Compositing Manager and xcompmgr. [Less]
Docky is a full fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker. Docky is fully integrated into the GNOME Desktop and features a no non-sense approach to configuration and usage. It just works.
AllTray is a program you can use on Unix-like systems such as GNU/Linux or FreeBSD running the X Window System to dock any application which doesn’t have a native tray icon into the system tray/notification area. AllTray works with any desktop environment which fully adheres to the ICCCM and EWMH
... [More] specifications. Development takes place at Launchpad. [Less]
It allows the user to select and launch applications showing eye-candy effects. It is written in c++ and wxWidgets and fits well in Gnome but works on most desktop environments. Does not require Compiz nor 3D acceleration.
This an application launcher for removable drives (although it can also be used as a normal application). Rather than organizing the apps as a list like the Windows Start menu, they are organized in a tool bar a bit similar to the Mac OSX dock bar.
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