Cairo-Dock VS KSmoothDock

Cairo-Dock

Cairo-Dock / GLX-Dock 3. 4 is now available. Cairo-Dock 3. 4 is finally released! One year after the 3.

KSmoothDock

KSmoothDock is a cool desktop panel with parabolic zooming effect for KDE Plasma 5, with the focus...

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Cairo-Dock and KSmoothDock)

KSmoothDock

App Launcher

83 83%

App Launcher

17% 17

Productivity

81 81%

Productivity

19% 19

Note Taking

75 75%

Note Taking

25% 25

Windows Tools

100 100%

Windows Tools

0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Cairo-Dock should be more popular than KSmoothDock. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Cairo-Dock mentions (3)

With Latte Dock no longer being maintained, what's another good Dock to use for KDE?
Have you tried Cario-Dock? Its not a native KDE app, but it does support KDE integration. I installed it on KDE Neon after the Latte Dock announcement. No crashes, and it has a lot of features. Source: about 1 year ago
Some Skeuomorphic Icons and Themes for Linux Devices
If you like Macs, the dock program Cairo-Dock has a bunch of built in themes, including one to look like the OSX style dock with the cool reflections: https://glx-dock.org. Source: over 1 year ago
How can I get this type of look on a Dock?
The closest thing you can do this is with cairo dock. It take some time, to customize it to make it look like what you see in the picture. It was a trend a decade ago, but not sure how much the package is maintained right now. For alternative you can check out docky which works pretty well with Gnome and its cousins, and if you are using KDE I better advice you to stick with latte dock. Source: about 2 years ago

KSmoothDock mentions (2)

With Plasma's default panels, there is really no need to use Latte-Dock
Latte dock always struck me as trying to be more than it needed to be. I find that KSmoothDock is a nice balance; it's a great dock and that's the end of it. Source: over 1 year ago
Anyone else seeing Latte Dock icons disappearing sometimes on click after updating to Plasma 5.25? Also tried compiling the latest one from git but this is still reproducible.
Try ksmoothdock. Its feature-set is smaller compared to Latte, but it should suffice. Source: over 1 year ago