Cairo Dock (or GLX Dock) is an animated application launcher (dock bar) for Linux that runs under GNOME, KDE or XFCE.

A new Twitter applet lets you tweet in one click

A new applet to inhibit the screensaver

Cairo Dock now uses GTK3

The Log out applet has been rewritten, now allowing you to switch users

Much better keyboard support: you can activate a launcher by pressing a shortkey and its number (like in Unity) and also, there are many new keyboard shortcuts

Enhanced taskbar

The Ubuntu Sound Menu has been integrated into the Sound-Control applet

Separators are transparent to click in 'Panel' mode

Text drawing (e.g. with Clock) has been improved

The new default theme with a panel is now included in the core package

Install Cairo Dock 3.0

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cairo-dock-team sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins

Thanks to Matthieu Baerts for the tip! Info via glx-dock.org

Starting with version 2.4.0 , Cairo Dock comes with its custom GNOME Session so you can use it as a stand-alone "shell".Here are a few more screenshots and a video with the latest Cairo Dock 3.0 in action:There's also a Debian repository available for Cairo Dock - see THIS page.For other Linux distributions, see the Cairo Dock installation page