AWN (avant window navigator) is a feature rich dock application for linux based distros. It includes almost every applet that comes with default ubuntu gnome-panel and pretty more customizable with its included themes and available third party applets.
Installing AWN with lucido style: 
So AWN can be a fancy as well as a more functional replacement to the default gnome-panel.
Installing AWN with lucido style:
what is lucido? Take a look at this screen shot :
Lucido is an AWN style which is now available as a part of AWN trunk, so instead of installing the stable release available in synaptic package manager ,we will install AWN trunk available through AWN trunk PPA.
