Cairo-Dock is an  application launch bar for your ubuntu, comparable to the dock in Mac OS X or Rocket Dock (for Windows).it is compatible with Beryl, Compiz, Metacity+xcompmgr and kwin.Even though there are applications like Simdock  and AWN in ubuntu for dock stimulation ,I think this one faster and eye candy.Cairo-Dock can work with  GNOME, KDE and XFCE desktop environments.

Installation

From Repository( for ubuntu 8.04 to 9.10 only )

1.Open the sources.list file to add your Cairo-dock repository

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

2.Add the appropriate repository to the end of the file according to your version of Ubuntu

deb http://repository.cairo-dock.org/ubuntu karmic cairo-dock // For Ubuntu 9.10

deb http://repository.cairo-dock.org/ubuntu jaunty cairo-dock // For Ubuntu 9.04

deb http://repository.cairo-dock.org/ubuntu intrepid cairo-dock // For Ubuntu 8.10

deb http://repository.cairo-dock.org/ubuntu hardy cairo-dock // For ubuntu 8.04

3.Type in

wget -q http://repository.cairo-dock.org/cairo-dock.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

4.Finally to install cairo-dock give this command in Terminal

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins

You are done.Enjoy the dock customising it further.

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