Latte Dock v.0.8 released!!! The third stable release has just landed!
Go get it from, download.kde.org * !
Features in Video
if you dont want to build it yourself, you can wait a few days to launch on your distro repositiories!
| - youtube presentation - |
Features in Video
- Multiple Layouts simultaneously
- Smart Dynamic Background
- Unify Global Shortcuts for applets and tasks
- User Set Backgrounds
- Download Community Layouts
- Smooth Animations
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| Latte v0.8 |
Take notice, Latte v0.8 is compatible only with:
- Plasma >= 5.12
- KDE Frameworks >= 5.38
- Qt >= 5.9
Except the video features what you can find in this release, you may ask...
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| multiple launchers and their separators |
Multiple Tasks Separators
Drag n' Drop separator widget on tasks in order to distinguish your launchers
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| Unity layout is read-only and its maximized windows do not have borders |
New Layout Settings
Lock/Unlock your layouts in order to make them read-only or writable.
Borderless maximized windows according the current layout
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| three different dolphin instances |
Dont group tasks
The user can choose to not group its tasks through Tasks configuration tab
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| the active indicator will be a line and all indicators will have a glow with opacity 55% and 3D style |
New Appearance Settings
Active Indicator and Glow Sections were added in order to adjust them accordingly at your preference
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| Dock mode |
Panel/Dock mode
Change between Panel and Dock
mode with one click
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| some "Unity" and "Dock with TopBar" layouts |
Community Layouts
Download community provided layouts from store.kde.org to customize your Latte
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| telegram with 679 unread messages |
Bigger Badges
A badge can have up to 9.999 size
in order to improve accessibility
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| access Latte layouts from plasma taskmanager |
Improve Plasma Taskmanagers Experience
Access your Latte options through context menu when you are using plasma taskmanagers
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| load default layout, access installed layouts etc. |
Command Line Options
Use your command prompt in order to handle Latte startup
fixes / improvements
- Various Wayland improvements. I use it daily in my system with Plasma 5.13 and it provides a fantastic experience with fantastic painting.
- Smoother parabolic animation
- Support KWin edges when hiding the dock or panel by default
- New improved splitters icons in Justify (Edit Mode)
- Improve the entire experience at Layouts/Latte Settings window
- Filter Windows by Launchers, show only windows that there is already a launcher present for the current running activity
- Vastly improve the experience in !compositing environments. No more showing an 1px line at the screen edge when the dock is hidden.
- New Global Shortcuts to open/hide dock settings and Latte settings (Meta+A, Meta+W, Meta+E)
- New Kwin script to trigger the application menu from a corner-edge
- Hide the audio badge when there no audio is coming from a pulseaudio stream
- various fixes for RTL languages
- New more robust animations all over the place
- Plenty of bug fixes and improvements
For new Latte users it might be a good idea to read/watch also Latte Dock v0.7 - " ...a tornado is coming... "
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1. Scott Holmes - "Our Big Adventure" at, freemusicarchive.org
2. Scott Holmes - "Ukulele Whistle" at, freemusicarchive.org
3. Scott Holmes - "Kiss The Sky" at, freemusicarchive.org
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2. Scott Holmes - "Ukulele Whistle" at, freemusicarchive.org
3. Scott Holmes - "Kiss The Sky" at, freemusicarchive.org* Archive Signature :
gpg key: 325E 97C3 2E60 1F5D 4EAD CF3A 5599 9050 A2D9 110E
