The Dock on the Mac desktop is a convenient place to access apps and features you’re likely to use every day. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Tag: Dock
DDE Dock – dock of Deepin Desktop Environment
DDE Dock is the dock of Deepin Desktop Environment. The new Dock consists of the traditional Dock and Tray (system level and program level).
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xpybar – highly extensible minimalistic dock panel
xpybar is a minimalistic dock panel. Its source code is designed so that all parts of it can be replaced by a configuration script.
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Crystal Dock – dock (desktop panel) for the Linux desktop
Crystal Dock is a cool desktop panel with parabolic zooming effect for KDE Plasma 6.
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Avant Window Navigator – dock-like bar
Avant Window Navigator (Awn) is a free and open source Mac OS X like panel for the GNOME Desktop written in C.
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Simdock – small dock with pseudo-transparency and good window handling
Simdock is a dockbar that features a zoom effect (like the OS X dock) and customized launchers. Free and open source software.
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Cairo-Dock – desktop interface
Cairo-Dock is an attractive, lightweight eye-candy dock. It has a family-likeness with the OS X dock, but with more options.
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Docky – full fledged dock application
Docky is a fully fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker.
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Plank – simple, fast and beautiful dock
Plank is meant to be the simplest dock on the planet. The goal is to provide just what a dock needs and absolutely nothing more.
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KSmoothDock – excellent KDE Plasma 5 desktop panel with parabolic zooming
KSmoothDock is a cool desktop panel with parabolic zooming effect for KDE Plasma 5. While visually it is inspired by Mac OS X’s Dock, it aims to follow the traditional Linux model of desktop panel with the application menu, launchers, the pager, the task manager, the system tray and the clock.
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