A new kitten to draw dock panels on X11 desktops showing the output from running arbitrary terminal programs

docs/index.rst

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     filenames, words, lines, etc from the terminal screen.
 
 
+:doc:`Panel <kittens/panel>`
+    Draw a GPU accelerated dock panel on your desktop showing the output
+    from an arbitrary terminal program.
+
 .. _sessions:
 
 Startup Sessions

docs/kittens/panel.rst

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+Draw a GPU accelerated dock panel on your desktop
+====================================================================================================
+
+.. highlight:: sh
+
+
+You can use this kitten to draw a GPU accelerated panel on the edge
+of your screen, that shows the output from an arbitrary terminal program.
+
+It is useful for showing status information or notifications on your desktop
+using terminal programs instead of GUI toolkits.
+
+
+.. figure:: ../screenshots/panel.png
+   :alt: Screenshot, showing a sample panel
+   :align: center
+   :scale: 100%
+
+   Screenshot, showing a sample panel
+
+
+The screenshot above shows a sample panel that displays the current desktop and
+window title as well as miscellaneous system information such as network
+activity, CPU load, date/time, etc.
+
+.. note::
+
+    This kitten currently only works on X11 desktops
+
+Using this kitten is simple, for example::
+
+    kitty +kitten panel sh -c 'printf "\n\n\nHello, world."; sleep 5s'
+
+This will show ``Hello, world.`` at the top edge of your screen for five
+seconds. Here the terminal program we are running is ``sh`` with a script to
+print out ``Hello, world!``. You can make the terminal program as complex as
+you like, as demonstrated in the screenshot above.