Now Dock v0.5

Hello everyone,

Now Dock Panel v0.5 is baked and ready for consume!!!

"...a Plasma Panel and Plasmoid which are trying to implement the mac or plank way of managing plasmoids and tasks... "

Now Dock Panel v0.5.0

Now Dock Plasmoid New Features:

• real icon shadows all the time
• fix, settings activities for a task
• various small improvements and adjustments in order to cooperate smoothly with the new architecture of Now Dock Panel 0.5

Now Dock Panel New Features:

• masking support,transparent areas are letting their mouse events to go to dock's underneath windows
• Visibility States: Below Active, Below Maximized, Windows Cover, Windows Go Below, Auto Hide, Always Visible
• beautiful sliding animation for showing or hiding the dock
• multi-screen support
• disabled compositing support

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Installation Steps

Step 1: Uninstall any locally installed now dock components by using the uninstall-local.sh script 

Step 2: the installation process for Now Dock Panel 0.5 must be followed manually through the installation script!!!

install-global.sh: provides a "for all users" installation including the translations but it has some basic plasma dependencies


Requirements for build and install:

• cmake
• plasma-desktop >= 5.8.0

and development packages for:

• Qt5Core >= 5.6.0
• Qt5Qml >= 5.6.0
• Qt5Quick >= 5.6.0
• KF5Plasma >= 5.25.0   (plasma-framework-devel)
• KF5PlasmaQuick >= 5.25.0  (kdeclarative-devel)
• KF5WindowSystem >= 5.25.0  (kwindowsystem-devel)
• KF5KDELibs4Support >= 5.25.0  (kdelibs4support-devel)
• KF5CoreAddons >= 5.25.0   (kcoreaddons-devel)

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Important 1: From version 0.5 the Now Dock Plasmoid is included in the Now Dock Panel

Important 2: until Plasma 5.9 comes out, for transparent panels you should use the python interface to produce a corresponding plasma theme, plasma-transparent-panel.py.v0.2.2.tar.gz




Links
[Now Dock Panel v0.5 - store.kde.org]

[OpenSuse BuildService]
[Arch - AUR]

I hope you find them useful!!

regards, 
michail