Just a few days ago Ubuntu Budgie has been an official Ubuntu flavor and it seems that there are great news in the official flavor. As far as we have learned, Budgie Desktop, the next version of Budgie will feature a serial dock, something that will make Ubuntu Budgie the first Ubuntu distribution to have this tool out of the box.
This way, you will not need any modification or any additional installation as was currently the case with Ubuntu and the rest of the official flavors. Also, as it will be released in the month of December, this dock will now be available in Ubuntu Budgie 17.04, the first version of the official flavor.
This is possible thanks to the incorporation of dock-like applications and icons that work as in the Unity panel and that make any panel become a powerful and functional dock.
The dock and a revamped Raven will be important elements in Ubuntu Budgie 17.04
Along with this, Budgie Desktop will have the option to customize the Raven board, a side panel similar to the one incorporated in MacOS and that from now on can be totally modified, without needing any theme, only the mouse and our taste will suffice.
The truth is that despite the fact that the dock is something very requested by many users, in Ubuntu it has not been a very characteristic element. In the many years and versions that have been created of Ubuntu and its flavors we only have something similar to the dock in Xubuntu, but it was a lower panel that did not have a dock operation but rather a secondary panel. Hopefully the Ubuntu Budgie dock be not an exception but something that creates school, that the rest of the distributions have that functional dock. However Will we see it next 2017 or will it be in several years? What do you think?
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I think that the dock should be an option in all environments, it is essential for small screens where the classic task bar is uncomfortable ... For that reason I only use Gnome, also the design is more modern ...
I still try it, but I think I will stay in Elementary; Loki is giving me very good results the truth, now that I have found stability…. XD