The dock works as a dock should: it’s at the bottom of your screen and it shown applications that you can open, or have open. The settings for the dock can be changed by right cliking on the most left icon (summon Gnome Do). There you can change settings like auto hide and whether you want a Mac like zoom in the dock. Adding applications is easy: just drag an icon from the Gnome menu to the dock.

The good thing is that Gnome Do hasn’t lost it’s command line. When you press the keyboard shortcut (Super-Space) or select the “Summon Gnome Do” icon the dock changes into a typing area as you know it from Gnome Do.

To install just update your Software Sources with the following:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-testers/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-testers/ubuntu intrepid main

If you have Gnome Do already installed then you’ll get an update notification pretty soon. If you hot not then you should do the following:

sudo apt-get install gnome-do

To enable the dock you have to select the Docky theme in the appearance preferences.

If you are never satisfied with the amount of settings they are offered: You can find Gnome-Do in the Gnome Configuration Editor at the following path:

/apps/gnome-do/preferences

In the Docky folder you can edit some settings like the IconSize, the monitor where it’s shown and the SummonTime.