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Re: remove icon from Dock


  • Subject: Re: remove icon from Dock
  • From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:57:46 -0700

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Ken Thomases <email@hidden> wrote:
> If you intend to do this programmatically, only do so with the consent of the user.  The dock is the domain of the user.  It is not appropriate for an application to modify it on its own.  Only the user is entitled to modify it.
>
> That's presumably why Apple has not provided any public means to modify it.  (By contrast, they did provide public API starting with 10.5, LSSharedFileList, for login items, favorites, and recents.)

Meanwhile, iWork 09's installer does this very thing. It adds its
icons to the dock and then quits it.

It would be nice if either followed their own example here or provided
an API. Preferably the former.

--Kyle Sluder
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