Release Of Cairo-Dock 3.6 Panel, Revived After 10-year Break

more than 10 years after the publication of the past significant release was formed the production of the project cairo-dock 3.6 , aimed at creating a visually attractive, fast and adjustable program launch panel. Cairo-Dock can be used as an independent shell or is used to replace or supplement the panels standard for desktop-renovation. The project code is written in the SI language and is distributed under the GPLV3 license. Ready-made packages are formed for ubuntu and Fedora , as well as in the process of preparation for arch linux . Simplified mode, consuming a minimum of resources. Bacries are provided for work in the environment on the basis of Wayland and X11. In the case of X11, work with any window manager is supported, and Wayland with composite managers supporting the protocol wlr- layer-shell . Through official and developed by the community plugins can be added to panels, animation and applets. Additional actions can be implemented through applets, such as displaying the state of the mailbox, receiving and sending instant messages, monitoring the operation of the media player, tracking the RSS tapes, viewing the condition of torrent loading, displaying weather and removing tasks from the calendar-planner. Appletes can both integrate into the panel and disconnect to turn into desktop vidges.

Key innovations:

• implemented a full-fledged possibility of working in the Wayland protocol. Only composite servers are supported with the implementation of Wayland Protocol Wlr href=”https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/”> wlroots and designed to position the panel on the screen. Work also requires support for one of the Wayland Protokols to control the upper level windows ( wlr-Foreign-toplevel-management , panma-window-management cosmic-toplevel-management