KDE/latte-dock

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

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Latte Dock

Latte is a dock based on plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids. It animates its contents by using parabolic zoom effect and tries to be there only when it is needed.

"Art in Coffee"

Screenshots

Development

Installation

Requirements

We need to use at least:

  • Plasma >= 5.24.0
  • PlasmaWaylandProtocols >= 1.6.0
  • Qt >= 5.15

Minimum requirements:

tools:

 bash

development packages for:

 Qt5Core >= 5.15.0
 Qt5Gui >= 5.15.0
 Qt5Dbus >= 5.15.0

 KF5Plasma >= 5.82.0
 KF5PlasmaQuick >= 5.82.0
 KF5Activities >= 5.82.0
 KF5CoreAddons >= 5.82.0
 KF5GuiAddons >= 5.82.0
 KF5DBusAddons >= 5.82.0
 KF5Declarative >= 5.82.0
 KF5Kirigami2 >= 5.82.0
 KF5Wayland >= 5.82.0
 KF5Package >= 5.82.0
 KF5XmlGui >= 5.82.0
 KF5IconThemes >= 5.82.0
 KF5KIO >= 5.82.0
 KF5I18n >= 5.82.0
 KF5Notifications >= 5.82.0
 KF5NewStuff >= 5.82.0
 KF5Archive >= 5.82.0
 KF5GlobalAccel >= 5.82.0
 KF5Crash >= 5.82.0

  For X11 support:
    KF5WindowSystem >= 5.82.0
    Qt5X11Extras >= 5.7.0
    libxcb
    libxcb-randr
    libxcb-shape
    libSM

From repositories

Ubuntu/Debian

OpenSUSE

Fedora

Arch Linux

Gentoo

Solus Project

Void Linux

FreeBSD

See the installation instructions for other Linux distributions or development builds

Run Latte-Dock

Latte is now ready to be used by executing

latte-dock

or activating Latte Dock from the applications menu.

Contributors

Varlesh: Logos and Icons.

KDE/latte-dock

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

C++

2,027

5,699 commits

updated Sep 8, 2026

See the code

README

Latte Dock

Latte is a dock based on plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids. It animates its contents by using parabolic zoom effect and tries to be there only when it is needed.

"Art in Coffee"

Screenshots

Development

Installation

Requirements

We need to use at least:

  • Plasma >= 5.24.0
  • PlasmaWaylandProtocols >= 1.6.0
  • Qt >= 5.15

Minimum requirements:

tools:

 bash

development packages for:

 Qt5Core >= 5.15.0
 Qt5Gui >= 5.15.0
 Qt5Dbus >= 5.15.0

 KF5Plasma >= 5.82.0
 KF5PlasmaQuick >= 5.82.0
 KF5Activities >= 5.82.0
 KF5CoreAddons >= 5.82.0
 KF5GuiAddons >= 5.82.0
 KF5DBusAddons >= 5.82.0
 KF5Declarative >= 5.82.0
 KF5Kirigami2 >= 5.82.0
 KF5Wayland >= 5.82.0
 KF5Package >= 5.82.0
 KF5XmlGui >= 5.82.0
 KF5IconThemes >= 5.82.0
 KF5KIO >= 5.82.0
 KF5I18n >= 5.82.0
 KF5Notifications >= 5.82.0
 KF5NewStuff >= 5.82.0
 KF5Archive >= 5.82.0
 KF5GlobalAccel >= 5.82.0
 KF5Crash >= 5.82.0

  For X11 support:
    KF5WindowSystem >= 5.82.0
    Qt5X11Extras >= 5.7.0
    libxcb
    libxcb-randr
    libxcb-shape
    libSM

From repositories

Ubuntu/Debian

OpenSUSE

Fedora

Arch Linux

Gentoo

Solus Project

Void Linux

FreeBSD

See the installation instructions for other Linux distributions or development builds

Run Latte-Dock

Latte is now ready to be used by executing

latte-dock

or activating Latte Dock from the applications menu.

Contributors

Varlesh: Logos and Icons.

Project health

Overall

2.8/10

Maintained

5/10

Code review

0/10
OpenSSF Scorecard

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