I’m using Crystal Dock and have tried Plank . Is there any others out there that should be tried?. I’m running Plasma on this Desktop and prefer the simple software app dock vs the KDE menu. Any idea’s or thoughts on this? I can’t get all apps to show up on the Dock that is where I’m running into issues. Nothing drastic. I’d like to see some of them on the dock and working. (i.e. radiotray-ng, caffeine-ng etc. )
Rich 
Plasma panels can easily be made into a dock if you are running KDE.
You’re right. . . . why am I trying to reinvent the wheel you might ask? Good question. . . .I guess I’m just bored. . . and like playing around on the computer. . . sometimes the obvious doesn’t smack one in the face.
Rich
You could look over some list like this https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/top-best-linux-docks-2020
And play 
Thanks, I’ll check out your link. . .
Rich 