After two years of development presented release panel Latte Dock 0.10 , offers an elegant and simple solution for managing tasks and plasmoids. Including the effect of supported parabolic increase in macOS style icons or panels Plank. Latte panel is based on the framework and KDE Frameworks library Qt. Supports integration with the desktop KDE Plasma. project code is distributed under license GPLv2.
The project was founded by the merger of similar in its Taskbar – Now Dock and Candil Dock. After the unification of the developers have tried to combine proposed in Candil principle of formation of separate panels, operating separately from the Plasma of Shell, with characteristic Now Dock quality design interface and use only KDE libraries and Plasma without third-party dependencies.
The main innovations:
- Given the opportunity to host multiple panels from one edge of the screen.
- Added support for pop-up panels.
- Added the ability to customize the corner radius of the panels and determine the size of the shadow of the panel.
- Proposed 10 modes panel visibility.
- Added a mode of appearance of the side panels, if necessary, in which the panel appears and disappears only after the user’s actions with the external applets, scripts or shortcuts
- Provide transmission Desktop Plasma information about the geometry of panels Latte Dock, as well as the transfer window managers that support GTK_FRAME_EXTENTS, data about the visible region for the correct window positioning.
- Added a built-in download dialog, and add widgets (Widgets Explorer), which can be used in environments other than the KDE, including GNOME, Cinnamon and Xfce.
- Added support for hosting multiple applets Latte Tasks on one panel.
- Added a new mode of alignment of the applet in the panel.
- Implemented a parabolic effect busting applet in the panel.