A very helpful German LXDE user put up a YouTube demo showing the possibilities of the panel for creating a simple but configurable dock. If it doesn't bother you to put the wattOS panel at the top of the screen, then you can open up a new one at the bottom and give it all the attributes you wish (though not the Cairo whizzbangs!) just with the Panel Settings/Preferences window - geometry, applets, appearance, etc.

I've been using this great little distro for about 3 weeks now on my AAO 110 (8Gbssd) and so far everything has worked well, although I've yet to try some applications on it. The netbook manages to drive projectors and speakers at work and seems pretty fast. Boot times are around the 35 second mark, not bad, though a little slower than #! but then wattOS is a lot friendlier than #! for the neuronally-challenged such as miself! wattOS is  very well put together and easy enough to configure to anyone's taste - I managed to make a little pop-up dock out of a panel I put at the bottom, with all my favorite icons in it, and it works well. So all hail Bif & his team for producing such a fine little jewel of a distro.