Now Dock

This is a plasmoid for Plasma 5 which is trying to mimic the plank or mac way of task management.

Features:

-- zoom tasks on hover

-- various animations for several cases (e.g. adding, removing launchers and windows)

-- activities and virtual desktops agnostic

-- launchers

-- dragging, drag n. drop (from outside)

-- different coloring for states

-- plasma theming

Requierements: Plasma Desktop >= 5.7.0 (it provides the new libtaskmanager which is wayland compatible)

I use it mostly in a panel and I have used the MX Theme as a Desktop Theme for full tranparency in the panels. I have also disabled the Blur Effect from Desktop Effects for this to work.

The panel size you must set it manually in this version but in the settings you can find a choice to show you a red line that marks the maximux needed space for animations.

It uses the new libtaskmanager provided by the great Plasma team and most of the internals code is based on the official taskmanager plasmoid. This is why you need at least Plasma Desktop>=5.7 for this to work.

I created it mostly because I needed a combination of plank way dock but also activities agnostic which I use a lot...

Have fun,

michail

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Plasma Transparent Panel

in Files section you can find a file called plasma-transparent-panel.py.tar.gz . That file contains a script and a gui that use an existing theme to create a new one which is going to have one of its panels transparent.

GUI usage:

just run file trasparent.sh

Command Line usage,

Examples

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python transparentpanel.py --list

///shows all installed themes

python transparentpanel.py breeze-dark West

///it will create a new Breeze Dark theme with the West panel transparent

python transparentpanel.py breeze-dark South bottom topright

///it will create a new Breeze Dark theme with the South panel transparent and also the bottom and the topright shadows will be shown including those the script chose

python transparentpanel.py breeze-dark South bottom topright -right

///it will create a new Breeze Dark theme with the South panel transparent and also the bottom and the topright shadows will be shown including those the script chose but without the right shadow