Avant Window Navigator – A MacOS X like panel
AWN was created by Neil Patel and there is an amazing dock for Linux, and it has lots of features that Apple doesn’t yet. The dock is called Avant released to the public using Google Code in 2007.
AWN not only functions great as a dock, but looks amazing. AWN at the moment has 3 overall looks, which can all be themed with lots of different colors and or patters. The first and default look is a flat panel resembling the Apples’ dock from Tiger. The next dock is a 3 dimensional looking dock molded after the dock found in Apple’s Leopard. This dock looks more like a shelf with the icons.
Installing awn
Type below command:
$ yum install avant-window-navigator awn-extra-applets
or
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:awn-testing/ppa
$ sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator awn-extra-applets
Just open the it, on the dock preferences you can automatically startup awn by ticking the option.
This bar is the future, there’s nothing that evolved out there and it’s gaining importance and attention by a great number of users.
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