Working with KoolDock and KXDocker
ON THE DOCKS
Author(s): HAGEN HÖPFNER
If the KDE Kicker is not graphical, or spectacular enough for your taste, you can dress up KDE with KoolDock or KXDocker.
The Kicker is the KDE command base. Kicker launches programs, switches desktops, and adds applets to the panel. Besides these basic functions, the program also offers a few graphical tricks. Kicker supports transparency and animated program launch icons with a magnifying glass effect when you hover the mouse over an icon. Unfortunately, the default KDE taskbar cannot match the graphical elegance of the Mac OS X dock. Matias Fernandez, Francisco Guidi, and Stefano wanted more than the default design. Matias and Francisco developed an add-on KDE taskbar that resembles the Mac OS X dock, and Stefano also developed an OS X-like taskbar for KDE. In this article. I’ll describe KoolDock [1] and KXDocker [2] and reveal how you can enhance your KDE desktop with one of these taskbars.
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