LavaLauncher 1.6 Released As A Simple Dock/Launcher For Wayland

[dragon321]

But under Gnome Shell or KDE I doubt it would work as expected

Isn't it already possible? Latte Dock works on KDE Wayland session. As for GNOME, isn't Desktop Icons NG extension do similar thing to make window with icons stay below everything?

[rastersoft]

Any shell can do that. Its just an ui to create a desktop file in place and add it to where ever you want it.

In fact, that's not true anymore: under Wayland, a program can't specify where a window is placed, neither whether it stays "on top" nor "at the bottom", both important things for elements like bars, docks and desktop icons. That's why doing these kind of things in Wayland usually require collaboration from the compositor, and that's why I suspect that this dock has been tested only in tiled window managers. But under Gnome Shell or KDE I doubt it would work as expected (I mean: to be able to keep it in an specific side of the screen, and always on-top).

[Thaodan]

Any shell can do that. Its just an ui to create a desktop file in place and add it to where ever you want it.

[Paradigm Shifter]

The ability to just use an icon and a command is one I wish more launchers/docks would allow.

I'll make a note of this for when I'm forced to switch to Wayland...

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LavaLauncher 1.6 Released As A Simple Dock/Launcher For Wayland

If you have been looking for a simple dock/launcher that natively supports Wayland, LavaLauncher 1.6 is available as one such solution...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LavaLauncher-1.6-Released