Ubuntu Dock, the new desktop accessory in Ubuntu 17.10

Ubuntu Dock

A few days ago we knew the intention of the Ubuntu team to introduce a dock in Ubuntu 17.10. This dock would be a new add-on that would bring the Ubuntu version of Gnome by default. Until that moment we did not know anything about this dock except that it would not be any of the official extensions that Gnome has for your desktop. Days later, we have been able to see the new Gnome desktop dock for Ubuntu. This dock has been baptized with the name of Ubuntu Dock.

Ubuntu Dock is a fork of the Gnome Dash to Dock plugin, but with some improvements applied that vaguely reminds us of an old acquaintance Do not you think?

Ubuntu Dock is presented as a toolbar similar to Unity's vertical panel. This form ends with the Gnome dash, but its location is not final. As well as neither the forms that at the moment we have of Ubuntu Dock in Ubuntu 17.10 are exact. But, for the moment we can say that a vertical dock that adapts to the height of the screen and that has a thickness similar to the vertical panel of Unity.

In this case, Ubuntu Dock will be compatible with configuration tools like D-Conf which will allow us to fully customize this Gnome tool for Ubuntu as well as it is expected that during the next few days shortcuts will be incorporated into the configuration menu to customize this tool.

And although this form is not final, we have to say that Unity image is very present in Ubuntu Dock, despite the fact that we still do not know if the horizontal form of Ubuntu Dock may exist or perhaps not as it happened in the first years of Unity's life.

I personally cannot understand this change. It is true that Canonical and Ubuntu want to dedicate themselves to projects that report benefits, but leaving a desktop to choose an option that imitates it does not seem like a wise decision to me, rather it seems to me a waste of resources since more developers than normal are dedicating themselves to this new version. The logical thing would have been bring Unity to other distributions, creating community around the desktop and thus lightening the burden of development. But, it seems that this is the right path. However Will it be the same way for its users?

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  1.   Hexabor of Ur said

    If they were going to do this, they better have continued to perfect Unity.
    I cannot find the logic of eliminating a desktop environment that after years was becoming more functional and was gaining ground and users. Then they come and without any consultation to the users they delete it and for worse they create a dock that emulates the same thing they deleted.

  2.   Cristobal Ignacio Bustamante Parra said

    I personally liked unity, if they try to imitate it it would be quite comfortable

  3.   Hell master said

    What's up friends!! How do I deactivate that dock? Could you help me with that problem?