Crystal Dock v2.7

New features & Enhancements:

• Auto Hide rework: the dock's Auto Hide visibility now behaves like that of a Plasma panel. This includes removing the 1-pixel line and fixing some bugs where it didn't re-show when the user moved the mouse to the edge of the screen.
• Various improvements to make the dock smoother and more responsive.

Bugs fixed:

• Fixed a bug where sometimes window icons don't get grouped into their launcher icon.
• Fixed a bug in a multi-screen setting where some window icons do not appear on some dock even when "showing tasks from current screen only" is not set.
• Fixed loading the application icon for certain applications e.g. Firefox Snap.

Crystal Dock v2.6

New features:

• Added a new Metal 2D visual style: for users who prefer Mac OS X 10.0 - 10.4 look. Thus now the user can choose from 3 visual styles: Glass 3D, Flat 2D and Metal 2D
• Support drag-and-drop to add new launchers: now the user can drag-and-drop from Crystal Dock / Plasma application list to Edit Launchers dialog to add new launchers
• Some minor visual enhancements: Slightly reduced the default icon spacing (note that the user can already adjust Icon Spacing Factor) and increased separator width for 2D styles

Bugs fixed:

• Fixed Auto Hide visibility on Left / Right position (regression)
• Demands-attention windows are now handled properly
• Improved window-to-application matching to avoid having to disable Pinned option and use the fallback icon
• If a window can't be matched to an application, the dock now tries to get the window's icon from the window manager to avoid using the fall-back icon
• Context menu: New Window should now only be visible for windows found in the application list
• Fixed a bug where the dock panel gets clipped on the sides sometimes (regression)
• Fixed a bug where the tooltip text sometimes got clipped
• Fixed a bug where the task indicators sometimes got half-covered by application icons
• Fixed a bug where the dock items jumped briefly when switching virtual desktop

Packaging:

• Both RPM and DEB binary packages are now available

Crystal Dock v2.5

New features:

• Added a new Flat 2D style: The user can easily switches between the existing Glass 3D style and the new Flat 2D style from the Panel Settings context menu
• Task indicator: now shows the number of windows for each application as 1, 2, 3 or 4+

Other changes:

• Added more error messages when an application cannot be pinned

Crystal Dock v2.4

New features:

• Task indicator now shows the number of windows for each application: 1, 2 or 3+, and also indicates the active window within the active application.

Bugs fixed:

• Fixed zoom animation when the mouse moves to an extreme end of the dock
• The ordering of windows for an application is now consistent
• Fixed Crystal Dock setting windows not showing in the task manager: a regression in v2.3
• When task manager is not enabled, the dock now does not show task windows: another regression in v2.3

Crystal Dock v2.3

New features:

• Re-added Multi-Screen support, that was left out during Wayland migration
• Re-added Always On Top visibility option, that was left out during Wayland migration
• Added an activation delay when in Auto Hide mode; the duration can be set from Appearance Settings

Bugs fixed:

• Fixed a bug where icons look broken on KDE Plasma 6 when Display Scale > 100%: thanks to factrc@github
• Fixed a bug where Qdbus command not found on Fedora: thanks to ludg1e@github
• The dock now sets mouse input mask in the appropriate region

Crystal Dock v2.2

New features:

• New 3D style: reminiscence of Sun's Project Looking Glass and Apple's Mac OS X Leopard/Lion. This feature comes as default but can be turned on/off from the dock's context menu. Also this only applies to a dock in bottom position of the screen, for aesthetic reasons.

Bugs fixed:

• Fixed a bug where task indicator does not change from 'active' to 'inactive' if the new active window is the dock itself.

Crystal Dock v2.1

New features:

• Floating style: this feature can be turned on/off from the dock's context menu and the floating margin can be set from the Appearance Settings dialog.

Bugs fixed:

• Fixed a bug where Sets All Desktops on a window makes it disappear from the dock.
• Fixed a bug where a window that demands attention could have its dock icon flashing even after it has been looked at, until the dock reloads.
• Fixed a bug where setting minimumIconSize larger than maximumIconSize crashes the dock.

Crystal Dock v2.0

New features:

• Supports KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland.
• Visual refresh: better spacing between dock items, clearer distinction between the active application and non-active open applications.
• Adds Close Window(s) to open applications' context menu.

Bugs fixed:

• The dock now only shows open applications from the current activity on KDE Plasma 6.

Changes:

• No longer supports X11.
• Visibility option: now only has Always Visible and Auto Hide.

Known issues:

• Multi-screen features (e.g. setting dock on a specific screen) are not yet working.

Crystal Dock v1.0

Initial release:

• Smooth parabolic zooming and translucent effect
• Supported components: Application Menu, Pager, Programs/Task Manager, Clock
• Multiple docks support
• Integration with various desktop environments (KDE Plasma, GNOME, MATE, Cinnamon, LXQt): special menu entries (e.g. Log Out), specific default launchers, setting wallpapers
• Support for setting different wallpapers for different virtual desktops
• Separate configs for separate desktop environments
• Only supports X11 currently, but future versions will support Wayland eventually