glx-dock

Cairo-Dock (GLX-Dock) is a full-fledged versatile dock, combining a pleasant-to-the-eye dock with (on demand) a top panel, pack of interfaces featuring a wide range of functionalities, such as numerous themes (expressed as a singular and/or multiple docks, latter "view" providing a complete desktop usefulness), indicators, properly selected shortcuts (including recent events, disk partitions and commonly used folders, workspace switcher, applications menu, etc) and a solid amount of eyecandy elements.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was released yesterday, shipping, by default, the gorgeous new Unity shell.

Nevertheless, there are users who still use and enjoy in their daily workflow "traditional" interfaces and interaction behaviors, such as GNOME 2-like sessions.

In Ubuntu 12.04, the above approaches can be easily acquired via plenty of choices, like for instance:

Cairo-Dock/GLX-Dock has been updated to version 3.0 (stable), adding numerous enhancements to the already versatile animated dock.

The new 3.0 version brings taskbar improvements, enhanced Log out applet (with support to switch users), various keyboard shortcuts, integration of Ubuntu's Sound Menu into Cairo-Dock's Sound-control applet, new applets (Twitter, 1-click away to inhibit the screensaver), proper text rendering, as well as under-the-hood improvements (the shifting to GTK+3).

Cairo-Dock is a fancy, light but powerful dock (or a desktop interface) that features multi-dock, taskbar, launchers and numerous applets.

Cairo-Dock 2.4 has been released with quite interesting additions and functionalities.

What is new in Cairo-Dock 2.4?

Glx/Cairo-dock, the notorious eye-candy dock, has reached yet another consistent milestone, 2.3.0(-1) version, coming with code cleanups, enriched interface and bug fixes.

What is new in Cairo-dock 2.3.0?

• a new elegant transparent squared theme, "BlackIvory", with black icons on white-ish transparent background

Glx-dock 2.3 BETA was released two weeks ago and today has received a new wonderful applet (plugin):Recent-Events, based on Zeitgeist framework.
Unlike other similar AWN or Docky plugins, this Glx-Dock Recent-Events is quite complex and Gnome Activity Journal like.

What does Recent-Events applet features?

Glx-Dock, a full featured dock, has reached 2.3 version (BETA), bringing some core changes (is now built on top of libgldi) and many new features.
Fabournet says that "having a minimalistic core ensure better stability and performances, and less bugs".

What is new:

      We all heard couple of days ago about unity replacing gnome-shell in Natty, meaning Unity will be gnome 3 shell, and gnome-shell taking a cold shower (competition is good, right?). This of course doesn't mean gnome-shell will die, but, at least for Ubuntu 11.04 netbook and DESKTOP edition, won't be used as default. You have the possibility to install it from repos, ppa, etc.