Dash to Panel VS Cairo-Dock

Dash to Panel

An icon taskbar for the GNOME Shell. This extension moves the dash into the GNOME main panel so that the application launchers and system tray are combined into a single panel, similar to that found in KDE Plasma and Windows 7+.

Cairo-Dock

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

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How to use Dash to Panel to make Gnome Shell look like Windows

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Cairo Dock on Linux Mint Cinnamon

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Dash to Panel and Cairo-Dock)

Dash to Panel

Cairo-Dock

Productivity

11 11%

Productivity

89% 89

App Launcher

0 0%

App Launcher

100% 100

Note Taking

15 15%

Note Taking

85% 85

Linux

100 100%

Linux

0% 0

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Cairo-Dock should be more popular than Dash to Panel. 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.

Dash to Panel mentions (1)

Visual Effects for GNOME 42 ..plus the links on comment
Dash to Panel (the bottom panel): https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel. Source: almost 2 years ago

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: over 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