

The ability to include applications that are not installed. Support for home directory relative paths (e.g.

The advantages of my solution (Dock Master) include: Over the past week I started working on a tool to make generating dock configuration profiles easy and include all the features missing from other tools. Unfortunately home directory relative folders were broken using this technique. System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/Īfter that I tried using Tim Sutton’s mcxToProfile script to convert ~/Library/Preferences/ into a profile. I also had temperamental success in directly editing: I tried Kyle Crawford’s dockutil command line tool and found it worked well for changing the dock of existing local accounts, but required scripting (LaunchAgent) to apply to newly created accounts. No home directory relative path support, therefore you cannot simply add a user’s Downloads folder to the dock.

app files) on the OS X Server host itself. You can only add applications to Profile Manager if they are installed (note: can be dummy. There is no control over the order in which applications are displayed in the dock. However, the functionality has some frustrating limitations: Recently I have been actively looking into the best solution for setting a custom dock on multiple machines.Īpple’s Profile Manager allows the creation of configuration profiles with dock settings.
