Gadget Tools

The application is only 10 days old and it doesnt have too many features, but its already usable. Right now, it supports pinning/unpinning applications, displays an indicator under the icon for running applications (with configurable color for light and dark panels) and allows moving items via right click > move left/right.

Also, the app honours the panel transparency and background settings, so it it should be compatible with any theme or any MATE panel customizations (including using it with a vertical panel).

In this very early development stages, the application doesnt support themes, theres no multi-monitor support and it doesnt indicate if there are multiple windows of the same app. Update: the app was updated and it can now indicate when there are multiple windows of the same app (for up to 4 windows).

Also, switching between multiple windows of the same app could use some work because right now, you can only do this by right clicking on the icon and selecting a window.

Even though it needs work, Im sure some MATE users will appreciate this small applet and maybe even help improve it, especially since other similar solutions (like the DockBarX MATE Panel applet which apparently cant be ported to the latest MATE, at least in its current state) dont work with recent MATE versions.

To make it easier to install, I uploaded Dock Applet to the WebUpd8 MATE/TopMenu PPA. To install the applet in Ubuntu MATE 15.10, 15.04, 14.10 or 14.04 / Linux Mint MATE 17.x, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/mate
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mate-dock-applet

sudo apt-get install mate-dock-applet