Plank is meant to be the simplest dock on the planet. The goal is to provide just what a dock needs and absolutely nothing more. It is, however, a library which can be extended to create other dock programs with more advanced features.
http://people.ubuntu.com/~ricotz/docs/vala-doc/plank/index.htm
You'll need the following dependencies:
- at-spi2-core
- dbus-x11
- gnome-common
- libbamf3-dev
- libcairo2-dev
- libdbusmenu-gtk3-dev
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev
- libgee-0.8-dev
- libglib2.0-dev
- libgnome-menu-3-dev
- libgtk-3-dev
- libwnck-3-dev
- libx11-dev
- libxml2-utils
- meson
- valac
- xvfb
Run meson to configure the build environment and then ninja test to build and run tests
meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja test
To install, use ninja install, then execute with plank
ninja install
plank