# KDE/latte-dock

Replacement dock for Plasma desktops, providing an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids

Repository: https://github.com/KDE/latte-dock
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/latte-dock
Homepage: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/latte-dock
Language: C++
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-08-12T04:42:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 76/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3289, "days_push": 21, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2028, forks 109 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:07.046975+00:00)

## What it is
Latte Dock is a dock application for KDE Plasma desktops that displays tasks and plasmoids with a parabolic zoom animation effect. It is built on Plasma frameworks and Qt5, and is packaged across most Linux distributions and FreeBSD.

## Use cases
- replace the default Plasma panel with a macOS-style dock
- add an animated dock with parabolic zoom to KDE Plasma
- show tasks and plasmoids in an elegant dock on Linux
- customize a dock bar with auto-hide behavior on Plasma
- run a dock on X11 or Wayland Plasma sessions

## When to choose
- you use KDE Plasma 5.24+ and want a polished, animated dock
- you want plasmoid support inside your dock
- your distribution packages latte-dock and you want easy installation

## When to avoid
- you use GNOME, XFCE, or a non-Plasma desktop environment
- you need a dock for Plasma 6 / Qt6, which this Qt5-based project does not target
- you want actively developed new features rather than maintenance

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: gui, ui-components, desktop-framework
- domain: desktop-applications, developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: cpp
- tags: kde-plasma, dock, taskbar, plasmoids, linux-desktop, linux, desktop, qt

## Member repositories
- KDE/latte-dock (main) score 76

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:07.046975+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:59:38.747159+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/KDE/latte-dock (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:07.046975+00:00, sha 18f93778b620)
  - homepage: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/latte-dock (fetched 2026-08-29T10:39:32.596312+00:00, sha 96c873524629)
  - site_page: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/latte-dock/-/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md (fetched 2026-08-29T10:39:32.605366+00:00, sha 99d09904c9d8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.