Filed in archive Utilities by Rom Feria on February 1, 2007

There is the usual love-hate relationship with the Mac OS X Dock - some like it, others hate it. Those who criticize it often have not even used it, not even once. Personally, I find it useful but I always try to keep it a minimum since the ultra-fast Spotlight search tool often acts as my app launcher.

Anyway, Neil J. Patel has developed a "fully customisable dock-like window navigator for GNOME" and called it "Avant" (see image). This open source utility, whilst not entirely a Mac OS X Dock-replica, functions just like Mac OS X. I recommend checking out Neil's blog for screenshots and screencasts.

Who says Linux needs to be boring? :)

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Vote for Mac OS X Dock for Linux:

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Rating: 9.03 out of 37 vote(s) cast.

Response from: Rehab saved my Life (05/20/07 9:14am)

Avant is pretty nice but Awn is written in C and uses Gtk & GConf. Avant-preferences is written in python, and needs pygtk and the python bindings to gconf. So many out there might find annoying.