Mac OS X Dock for Linux

February 1, 2007 | Utilities | By: admin

Mac OS X Dock for Linux

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? :)


Comments

Comment from Rehab saved my Life
Time May 20, 2007 at 7:14 am

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.

Comment from kombi regulatoru
Time December 14, 2010 at 10:30 pm

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