Plank Reloaded is a fork of the original Plank project, providing a simple dock for X11 desktop environments. While development began with a focus on Cinnamon, the project actively support multiple desktop environments including MATE and Xfce. Wayland is not supported at this time.
Like its predecessor, Plank Reloaded aims to be the simplest dock on the planet, providing just what a dock needs and absolutely nothing more. It also remains a library which can be extended to create other dock programs with more advanced features.
This is free and open source software.
Key enhancements
- Enhanced compatibility with X11 desktop environments (Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce).
- Support for KDE when running in X11.
- Migrated to modern meson build system for easier compilation and installation.
- Added AnchorDocklets/AnchorFiles settings to anchor docklets/files to the end of the dock.
- Fixed Restrict to Workspace so applications only show up on their active workspace.
- Max Zoom has been increased to 400%.
- Added GapSize to set the gap between the dock and the screen edge.
- Ability to support multiple monitors.
- Comprehensive docklet improvements:
- Applications: Better reliability and fixed duplicate items issue.
- Battery: Modern UPower integration.
- Clock: Enhanced digital display with new pop-up calendar.
- Clippy: Image support, improved text handling and menu organization.
- Notifications: A notification docklet for displaying system notifications.
- Separator: A simple separator so you can setup a Mac OS X like dock experience.
- Workspaces: A graphical workspace switcher.
- Refreshed icons across all docklets.
- Support for third party docklets.
- Added Matte and Matte-Light themes, based on Arian Plank Theme.
- Added theme options to set the indicator, active item, and badge styles.
- General code cleanup and stability improvements.
Website: github.com/zquestz/plank-reloaded
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Developer: Josh Ellithorpe
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Plank Reloaded is written in Vala. Learn Vala with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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