I have used Latte dock for some time, mostly because I like the parabolic effect. After the latest rounds of updates, it disappeared. Searching for it to reinstall, I see reports that it is discontinued. In other places it is offered in community repos. None of those looked familiar and I know I didn’t have any of them installed.
My question is: should I continue to use Latte dock and where is a safe place to get it. Also, any recommendations on alternatives?
It has an official and OBS repo you can use as per the project’s Github page:
No indications of it being discontinued.
Yea, openSuse decided to remove Latte Dock from the standard repo.
Happened to me too … the removal was intentional - disappointed the only “announcement” is during the zypper dup, there’s the removal of the package, which is why it’s important to pay attention to package removals
I did this to install from the Extra repo:
# zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:Extra/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/KDE:Extra.repo
# zypper refresh
# zypper in latte-dock latte-dock-lang
Don’t worry … all your settings still exist. After zypper install, simply start Latte Dock. And if you have it set to load at login, it will start as usual
Reason in the request:
“Incompatible with Plasma 6”.
I’m not on Plasma 6 (but yes, on P5), which hasn’t been officially released. 
Latte-Dock has been unmaintained for a while, upstream, while there has been some activity recently, there hasn’t been any commitment from anybody to actually look after it, and ensure bugfixes and whatnot, Generally speaking, it’s a good thing for distributions to not be shipping unmaintained software.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I am tempted to use the KDE Extra repo since I like Latte Dock so much. But, if will just disappear again with the imminent release of Plasma 6, I think I will wait until we see what comes next.
Thanks again.
I too use Latte (for years) and it was blindly removed. I also used the Extra repo and it’s an instant fix - about a minute later and you’re running again.
Personally, I won’t immediately jump on Plasma 6 - I’ll let others beta test it for a while 
I’ve also tested TW with Plasma6 (Krypton) and there’s not any (enough?) new features that I consider advantageous for my use. P5 works good enough.
I might have to come out of retirement (software engineer) momentarily to get Latte to work.
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