Cairo Dock review - The dock is in the detail
Cairo Dock is feature-rich, no scratch that, feature-ultra-rich dock software that allows you to adorn your desktop with any number of docks, however custom and fancy you like, replete with their own individual behavior, animations, themes, icons, and applets. Not for the weak or the impatient. But it surely does more than pretty much any other dock program out there. Very cool.
And yet, therein lies its weakness. Most people, if they need a dock, only want something simple and elegant. They want consistent behavior and pleasant, integrated theming. When it comes to using an Xfce desktop that has a dock-like behavior, Cairo provides the best (and only viable results), but it's also super-complicated and there are some outstanding visual issues that you just can't work around easily. In general, Cairo does wonders, it's a really mighty dock tool, but it's perhaps too powerful for its own good. Still, I think it's definitely worth using and testing, and I hope it will remain around, and maybe even get some fresh, modern themes. We're done.
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