Plank is described as 'Is meant to be the simplest dock on the planet. The goal is to provide just what a dock needs and absolutely nothing more. It is, however, a library which can be extended to create other dock programs with more advanced features' and is a application launcher in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Plank for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, Windows, KDE Plasma and Python apps. The best Plank alternative is RocketDock, which is free. Other great apps like Plank are Cairo-Dock, Docking, Docky and Eww.
Sidebar transforms the macOS Dock experience, offering multi-screen support, customizable preferences, live previews on Ventura, and window management with WindowSnap. It reserves screen space to optimize display usage and supports storing multiple window configurations for flexible setups.
KSmoothDock is a cool desktop panel with parabolic zooming effect for KDE Plasma 5, with the focus on smooth zooming effect and being simple and easy to use.
The next-generation framework for building desktop widgets using Python.
DockBarX is a lightweight taskbar / panel replacement for Linux which works as a stand-alone dock (called DockX), as an an Avant Window Navigator applet, as a Xfce4 panel applet1, as a matepanel applet2 or as a legacy gnome2 panel applet.
Crystal Dock is a cool dock (desktop panel) for Linux desktop, with the focus on attractive user interface, being simple and easy to customize, and cross-desktop support.
A widget framework for building desktop shells, written and configurable in Python
clipse is a configurable, TUI-based clipboard manager application written in Go with minimal dependency. Though the app is optimized for a Linux OS using a dedicated window manager, clipse can also be used on any Unix-based system.
Luncher is a simple Windows application and file launcher. It allows you to setup buttons that act as shortcuts to open any application, file or folder. Luncher appears as a small panel on the top of the screen that is always easily accessible.
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