Latte Dock unmaintained

Issues & Assistance Latte Dock
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Hi there

I've been noticing some instability and high cpu usage from latte-dock. I've installed aur/latte-dock-git which I believe builds it from the latest commit to the git repo and this has improved it somewhat.

The reason for my posting is that I have found out that latte-dock is now unmaintained. I was wondering if the garuda community would have anyone interested in stepping up to be its maintainer, due to it being a core component of the garuda dragonized desktop layout?

thanks
Michael

garuda-inxi below (though not really relevant)

System:
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parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
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Machine:
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serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 4403
date: 04/27/2022
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Garuda (2.6.8-1):
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Firstly, hello and welcome to the forums!

We have had a lengthy forum thread about this at Latte Dock Maintainer Bids A Farewell

Also, Latte-dock has been buggy for quite a lot of people lately as I’ve seen an influx of posts on this topic, so it isn’t just you. Even resetting the configuration using Garuda Assistant doesn’t fix it for some.

I am unsure what the team is going to do about this in the future if things with latte-dock get worse.
I however do know you can get really close to the default latte-dock feel in base Plasma using either the same or similar widgets (got one going right now on one of my machines so I have a “backup plan” if latte-dock starts messing up really bad)

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Yes, Plasma's built in/turn-a-bar into a dock keeps improving and it seems like they are trying to get to the Latte Dock place. With that said, Latte Dock just got a new upgrade today, so someone must be working on it. I haven't had the time to go down that rabbit hole to get an update on the situation. Also to note, I haven't had any issues with it (knocking on EVERY piece of wood I can find, including @Bro 's ukulele. :violin:)

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@RodneyCK The KDE devs are not trying to "get to the Latte place". The KDE devs have made that very clear. As for a new updatye it is a bug fix only not an actual update. The KDE devs have been kind enough to at least handler Latte bugs as they crop up, but out and out maintain Latte no.

@Kayo It actually depends on your setting in Latte if you can set a default panel to be close to Latte since Latte does have a lot more custom setting than the defauklt panel.

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Maybe you can install garuda/latte-dock ?
Apparently there are a few patches the team has included in that version.

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Better to install latte-dock-git cause it's the one the the KDE devs are doing the bug fixes for.

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Well then they are sending mixed messages, because introduced in KDE 5.25/5.26… “as well as a new floating mode for the panel that detaches it from the bottom of the screen to look more like a dock.”

I hope the KDE team step up and realize the importance of Latte Dock to KDE. I mean, if memory serves me, a fresh Dragon-ized Garuda install used Latte Dock as all their panels.

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Correct, the Plasma version of Garuda of course.

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A default panel sadly misses a few features that Latte set apart for me personally. I do a lot of top bar dragging to move my windows like GNOME offers it and the dock feels more alive than other alternatives to name two of them :thinking: I’m just very much hoping maintenance isn’t stalling as much as it needs to cause issues :confused:

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They're not sending mixed messages cause the feature set is in all the versions. It's just as far as I know they are only pushing bug fixes for one of the.

As for the KDE team stepping up I completely agree cause Latte is so superior to the default panels and docks.

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Stop posting fud.Latte is for all intents and purposes is dead.

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Pretty sure the only fud here is your post.

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