New feature: remove the Docky Icon

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Robert Dyer

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Apr 3, 2010, 8:38:02 PM4/3/10
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As per the bug report here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/docky/+bug/500185

There has been a lot of prior discussion about the ability to remove
the Docky icon from Docky. While the devs are generally against it
(for several stated reasons, which you can read in the bug report), I
have gone ahead and added such functionality. Since a recent change I
made now allows the user to right-click on a separator and get the
Docky menu, I felt there was very little reason to not provide this
functionality now.

This is available as of trunk revision 1238.

It is not exposed in the configuration and is only available as a
GConf setting. To remove the Docky icon from your dock, set the GConf
key '/apps/docky-2/Docky/DockController/ShowDockyItem' to false and
restart Docky.

- Robert

Robert Dyer

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Apr 3, 2010, 8:57:12 PM4/3/10
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As of rev 1240, the location of the GConf key has moved to:

/apps/docky-2/Docky/Items/DockyItem/ShowDockyItem

This seemed like a better spot for it.

- Robert

Robert Dyer

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Apr 3, 2010, 9:00:36 PM4/3/10
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As per bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/docky/+bug/512933

I added the ability to configure the action for the left-click on the
Docky icon. By default it will open the configuration dialog.

You can use GConf to set any command to run in place of the
configuration dialog. The GConf key is '/apps/docky-2/Docky/Items/
DockyItem/DockyItemCommand' and expects the path to a command to
execute.

This is available as of trunk revision 1239.

- Robert

Matt Sephton

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Apr 6, 2010, 9:50:51 AM4/6/10
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Thanks for this change.
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