Now Dock 0.5 is Available, panel and plasmoid for Plasma 5.x

What is Now dock ?

This is a panel and plasmoid for Plasma 5 which is trying to implement a mac style effect for its applets. It uses the Now Dock plasmoid for its configuration and complements it as one single area for which the user can add its applets. The applets as the user windows are going to create a nice zoom effect on hovering.

New Features in 0.5 – Panel
– 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

Features

double layout with special spacer (left and rightand top and bottom)
Now Dock Panel Configuration Window
add plasmoids and animate them
lock plasmoids in order not to animate
automatic categorizing of plasmoids that probably would break the hovering animation
anchor the panels content in every way you want, center, left, right, top, bottom
beautiful visuals for dragging and drag n’ drop plasmoids
support plasma’s panel theme and set its background size
translations

New Features in 0.5 Plasmoid

real icon shadows all the time
various small improvements and adjustements in order to cooperate smoothly with the new architecture of Now Dock Panel 0.5

Features

player buttons in menu
set activities for a task
fixes in animations
add window options
support different launchers per activity
window previews
highlight windows
anchor your plasmoid wherever you want in order to provide proper zoom animation
visual indicator for tasks progress (e.g. copying files)
configure animation duration
work smoothly with Now Dock Panel
zoom tasks on hover
various animations for several cases (e.g. adding, removing launchers and windows)
activities and virtual desktops agnostic
launchers
dragging, drag n. drop (from outside)
different coloring for states
plasma theming