Michael Vourlakos has announced that he has retired from the Latte Dock project, which develops an alternative task control panel for KDE. The reasons given are the lack of free time and the loss of interest in further work on the project. Michael planned to leave the project and hand over maintenance after the release of 0.11, but in the end decided to leave early. It is not yet clear whether someone will be able to pick up the development - Michael made the overwhelming number of changes. A few other people are active in the changelog, but their contributions are minor and limited to individual fixes.
The Latte panel was founded as a result of the merger of panels that are similar in their tasks - Now Dock and Candil Dock. As a result of the merger, an attempt was made to combine the principle of forming a separate panel that works separately from the Plasma Shell, proposed in Candil, with the high-quality interface design inherent in Now Dock and using only KDE and Plasma libraries without third-party dependencies. The panel is based on the KDE Frameworks framework and the Qt library, supports integration with the KDE Plasma desktop and implements the effect of a parabolic increase in icons in the style of macOS or the Plank panel. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license.
Source: opennet.ru