Cairo Dock and ibus
I've been using awn for quite a while. It's normally ok but sometimes it just has one glitch or another: not very stable. Also the feel is not quite like Mac's Dock. Now here's a new one: Cairo Dock. It looks great and feels snappy. The icon magnification is just neat.
And for the input method, i got fed up with scim and its crappy dict. Now i start using ibus. It's written by the same author of scim-python. It looks very promising (Dbus based, native theme, etc.) and hopefully has a bright future (i guess). You can give it a try.
