add menu bar

Hi. I have been searching, but probably am not looking in the right place… is there a way to have my open apps show up on a bar on the bottom of the screen? i am running a new install of 11.2 with gnome. if a have 2 terminal windows open, a couple of open office apps running, and a firefox window, i would like to see each of them separately on a bar across the bottom of the screen. currently, i think they are all in a window list pref icon on the top panel, which is hard to look at and tell what apps are running, and which app you want to select. thanks.