A quick overview

Cairo-Dock is a desktop interface that takes the shape of docks, desklets, panel, etc

light

fast

customizable

plug-ins

applets

keyboard

Cairo-Dock implements the following protocols and standards:

Cairo-Dock supports the following interfaces:

TL;DR: main changes

Menus : added the possibility to customise them

: added the possibility to customise them Style : unified the style of all components of the dock

: unified the style of all components of the dock Better integration with Compiz (e.g. when using the Cairo-Dock session ) and Cinnamon

(e.g. when using the ) and Applications Menu and Logout applets will wait the end of an update before displaying notifications

and applets will wait the end of an update before displaying notifications Various improvements for Applications Menu, Shortcuts, Status-Notifier and Terminal applets

applets Start working on EGL and Wayland support

and support And as always ... various bug fixes and improvements!

Important note

Screenshot of this version with 4 actions

Menus and unified style

menu.css

current_theme

.

Other improvements

There is a better integration with your Window Manager, e.g.:

If it's the first time you're using our Cairo-Dock Session but your current dock only has one panel, you'll see a proposition to switch to the 'Default-Panel' theme.



When adding new desktops from the Switcher applet, a special case has been added for Compiz user to add workspaces instead of desktops (not the same concept) and save the new settings.



On Cinnamon, the dock will open more specific applications (e.g. to change sound settings, lock the screen, logout, etc.)

Applications Menu and Logout applets will wait for the end of an update of the system before displaying notifications, e.g.:

When installing a new software, the Applications Menu will propose to you to open this new application at the end of the installation of all applications (of course, you can disable this behaviour)



When upgrading your kernel (or a few other packages), you will see a notification only at the end of the upgrade of all packages which will propose you to reboot your computer. If you try to reboot your computer during an upgrade, the dock will show you a warning.

A few options have been added (e.g. in the Terminal applet) and other details have been improved. For a complete ChangeLog, please have a look to our commit messages

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Please continue to report bugs/ideas/questions on Launchpad or on our forum

lp:cairo-dock-core

lp:cairo-dock-plug-ins

lp:cairo-dock-plug-ins-extras

Hello EGL and Wayland

How to install

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cairo-dock-team/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins

It's a community project, feel free to help!

If you like this project

matttbe , Thursday 23 October 2014 à 01:45