Mutiny Dock/Panel - too easy to remove Dock

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#1

It took me a while to work out why my side panel launchers in Mutiny weren't showing all the features I expected and others were getting - minimise/un-minimise etc.
I had inadvertently removed the dock from the panel instead of unpinning the specific launcher as I had intended. Because I was then dragging app launchers on to the naked panel they worked in terms of launching apps but without the dock features.
It also took me a while to figure out how to get the dock back.

This is going to be very confusing to a newish user and it may be an idea to prevent the dock being so easily removed or offer an oops 'undo' feature as in Plasma 5.

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#2

You might want to submit this as bug with the Dock Applet developer: https://github.com/robint99/mate-dock-applet/issues

One solution would be a MacOS-like “options” submenu (or call it something else) that could hold the options not related to the app, like Dock Prefs, About, Move, and Remove [Dock Apple] From Panel.

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#3

Done, thanks.
I included your suggestion.

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#4

I believe the “Remove from Panel”, “Move” and “Lock to Panel” options would be part of MATE itself and not necessarily something the developer of MATE Dock Applet can instantly modify/remove. However, it could be technically possible to show a custom menu when right clicking the applications, and move the panel options somewhere else.

#5

@lah7 That makes sense, because…

@siabost9deas You can also make the panel(s) uneditable, which will hide the panel-related options, by running this command:

gsettings set org.mate.panel locked-down true

(Change the true to false to make the panels editable again.)

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