desktop dock and widgets

You could try kxdocker and superkaramba with its many widgets, although these are mainly KDE things.

There are also adesklets which are a lighter alternative to both superkaramba and gdesklets, although a little harder to configure (command line).

Btw, I can't access the sf.net site for some reason so I linked you to the freshmeat page there.

Cheers

Lots of SuperKaramba widgets

Wow thanks that's a really great site! I've just converted to Linux and this will help alot I'm also still searching for more widgets, I'll keep you updated on some of the sites I find