The plank version in Debian Jessie/Sid is a bit old, it being version 0.6.1-1~experimental1 and the plank project has moved on since then. The current version is 0.7.1 which was released on 23 September 2014, and there’s talk of 0.8.0 too ...

Whilst generally surfing around I came across a new launcher, which is similar to docky but called plank. And this is what it looks like -

Plank is a very lightweight and quick to launch launcher, and easy on resources. Looking at the above screenshot of plank you can see the ...