Over the past year or so, there has been an explosion of eye-candy type apps for Linux. With show stoppers such as Compiz Fusion, nerds have plenty to grin about these days.With Avant Window Navigator, you can have a beautiful dock on your system, similar to the one in Mac OS X. AWN is very themeable and customizable, with many animations and applets available. And hey, it's pretty! Unlike other dock clones, AWN is very simple and intuitive. Users can simply drag-and-drop any application short cut to the dock, just like in OSX.
AWN is a free download, and installs very easily on Ubuntu thanks to this DEB package. AWN is only available for Ubuntu, so users of other distros will need to compile it themselves.
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2-12-2008 @ 8:47AM
flowolf said...
please! gentoo users always compile stuff themselves... ;)
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2-12-2008 @ 9:10AM
David said...
I've got it, it's great!
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2-12-2008 @ 10:21AM
Paul Cutler said...
Foresight Linux also includes Avant Window Navigator. Foresight 1.4 users just need to do a
sudo conary update avant-window-navigator
The upcoming Foresight Linux 2 release (currently in alpha testing) includes AWN installed (but not enabled) by default. Just go to Applications -> Accessories to run it.
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2-12-2008 @ 11:30AM
Monica said...
Also available in Mandriva's urpmi.
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2-12-2008 @ 11:44AM
Ravi said...
is it available in ubuntu?
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2-12-2008 @ 6:31PM
Sensai said...
Yes, it is available in Ubuntu.
In fact, it's my favorite Linux project right now.
2-12-2008 @ 4:45PM
Anirudh said...
I use awn dock, and it looks absolutely great, and also saves a ton of space for the bottom toolbar and has many other cool features like showing album art of the playing music in place of the music player's icon, and the picture of the person you're chatting with in pidgin.
@Ravi, yes. it's available.
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2-15-2008 @ 10:27PM
Mark Lee said...
Hi,
I'm one of the core developers of Awn. First off, as many other people have stated, Awn is available for all Linux distributions. Several of them package binaries. We have a comprehensive installation guide (via source or binary) at our wiki: http://wiki.awn-project.org/
Additionally, the deb binary that you link to is a bit out of date. We're getting ready to release version 0.2.4 (for details on the changes, see my blog at http://blogger.malept.com/ ), and for some reason, many Awn users like to run the latest development version of the dock. We have a Launchpad PPA containing packages for both the dock and our applet repository: https://launchpad.net/~awn-testing/+archive
Thanks for getting the word out about Awn!
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