SILIDOCK - simple lightweight dockbar

Silidock is a simple dockbar, available for Linux and Windows.
Configuration is done by two scripts: one script for adding and removing applications, the other to set size, position, columns and date display.
It follows the principle of "keep it simple" and does nothing but launching applications via button click, except (optional) displaying date and time.
I wrote this program mainly to practice the programing language C/C++.


The term for such programs differs:
  • Dock bar
  • Application launcher
  • Start panel
  • Program starter
  • Launch Bar
  • Start menu
  • Shortcut bar
There are several other programs for this purpose. You can find some of them here.

Other programs are often more comfortable.

Silidock is - as I know - the only one which is available for both Linux and Windows.
It is under GNU GPLv3 Licence (Copyleft).

Silidock bases on the "Fast Light Toolkit" (FLTK), can be linked statically and can be compiled on different platform with small modifications (the program call function). The look and feel is similar on all platforms.

screen shot

You can find some parts of the program with German-language comments here.


Alternative programs (other dock bars)

Screenshots:
horizontal, small buttons
vertical, two columns, large buttons
vertical, one column

Downloads of binary files (insufficient tested version):
(Size: 1,6 MiB)
MD5 checksum: CFE0019A6051C388F462C74693276EEE
SHA-256: 2D7A1FB00713D6E419E93651592C714FCF95AD13ACD0AE6CC33F0BB00A228B7B
The file silidock must be executable (sudo chmod u+x silidock).
(Size: 837 KiB)
MD5 checksum: 72B0EF5009C16E7780FA791091C50EBE
SHA-256: 0C5AA1507F3C74E4EF72CAA9B8FD84419585404E801A5555324A67C01B37A9A6
Source code (you can see the source code at GitHub, see link below):
silidock for Linux (tar) (Size: 13,2 KiB)
MD5 checksum: E0BA9BA919131CEA319E4B0C73DBB452
SHA-256 checksum: 54A6BD86350241C499B1A03ACCF6E1CCCB9BFD8FA45386911C1E5DD80FA960D4
silidock for Windows (zip) (Size: 17,3 KiB)
MD5 checksum: 69D602EF509B4C47B6E51308DD714691
SHA-256: 31AB9741AE84252D727928DD126711993C228F59EB3BDC9A7B4F59BEC0372A61

GitHub: Source code at GitHub