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I'm new to ubuntu. I wanted to configure the taskbar panels so I can see individual running programs as tabs on the bottom of the screen (as in windows), and I was able to achieve that by using Dash to Panel. This seem to work fine, but the second step is to make a quicklaunch, basically an area on the left part of the the taskbar I can use to quickly launch new programs regardless of what is maximised.

I'm adding a screenshot of how I have it configured on windows:

The closest to this would be to use the "Favorites", but that has one huge problem, the icon disappears whenever I start a program. Which is messy, and also, It disallows me to start another instance. Also, the configurability of the Favorites doesn't look to be existing, I need something like the shortcut editing in windows, where I need set the executeble, the arguments of and working directory.

So the question is, how do I achieve this in ubuntu?

I'm new to Ubuntu. I wanted to configure the taskbar panels so I can see individual running programs as tabs at the bottom of the screen (as in windows), and I was able to achieve that by using Dash to Panel. This seems to work fine, but the second step is to make a quicklaunch, basically an area on the left part of the taskbar I can use to quickly launch new programs regardless of what is maximized.

I'm adding a screenshot of how I have it configured on Windows:

The closest to this would be to use the "Favorites", but that has one huge problem, the icon disappears whenever I start a program. Which is messy, and also, It disallows me to start another instance. Also, the configurability of the Favorites doesn't look to be existing, I need something like the shortcut editing in windows, where I need to set the executable, the arguments of and working directory.

So the question is, how do I achieve this on Ubuntu?