Hi all

Just wondering if anyone has managed to hide the dock icon for skype, I would like it if just the menu bar icon was visable and no dock icon as for me its not nessusary to have it visable. I played around with the info.plist but sadly couldent make it hide using:

<KEY>NSUIElement</KEY>
<STRING>1</STRING>

Any tips if not i would personally like this as an option to turn off the dock icon if you have the menubar icon active.


Thanks

Lee

I also like an option to hide skype from the dock...

Try Dockless.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12516

Dockless removes the menu bar icon as well as the dock icon (according to that page), so that doesn't help. The app should really be smart enought to not appear in the dock if the Menu Bar option is turned on.. you don't need two icons in two places on the screen.

I agree, it really bugs when when software uses the dock and the menu bar. Something like skype really should have the open to use one or the other, it is the sort of thing that could be open for hours on end and never used, so sitting in the menu bar out of the way without a dock icon is perfect.

Skype developers, please consider adding this

Hehe, I have more than 30 icons at my dock, I find them so useful!

At Jira system you can submit all feature request you want, but... Are you sure so many people would use this? You would loose some features. Usually the top icon is the one to show / hide.

Anyway, is an interesting suggestion

SECOND!
I want that feature, too.
So Skype doesn't show up when I'm tabbing through applications any longer...

I found an application so you can hide the icon in the dock. I haven't tried it yet, but hope this may help you.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32125

Yeah that is what I use right now, problem with that sort of thing is that it removes access to the menubar for the application you use it on

Seconded, this would be very useful indeed. I keep it on 24/7 and tend to keep a minimalist Dock, so it bugs me the whole time. Ideally:

- when you click "show Skype status in menubar", another option becomes available, "do not show icon in Dock".
- there is an option under the menubar icon to "Show Main Window" or similar, so that you can call up the contact list whenever you want.
- when the main window is up, you will have access to all the Skype menus as normal, so there is no loss of access. You could even show the Dock icon whilst the main window was open, and lose it again when it closed, if that was possible.

This would be a totally sweet mac-like feature!! Developers?

And then, how do you show it again if the menu bar menu is not enabled?

Maybe the solution is adding -another one!- option in the Advanced menu?

It's possible. You were on the right track, but, the info.pllist file is cached, as of OS X v10.3 (You need to move the Skype.app file somewhere else, run it and move it back. Well, you deffintly need to move it, not sure if running it is completely necessary).
Full guide thingy:
- Right click->Show package contents.
- Go to the Contents folder
- Double click the Info.plist file (It'll open in the Property LIst Editor)
- Click the triangle on Root.
- Single-click root, press the New Child button, type the name as NSUIElement, and a value of 1
- Press return, File>Save, File>Quit
(And the important bit you never done)
- Move the skype.app file to your desktop (or any other folder), launch it. If you have Skype in your dock always, drag it out, and it'll disapear. You can then drag Skype back to your application folder.

That's it. It'd be much nicer just to have a preference option for it, but this works.
Other small note: If you happen to lose your menu-bar icon for skype, you can get back to the skype menu by double-clicking the Skype.app - Although if your techically minded enough to want Skype out your Dock, and happy editing plist files, I imagine you could work that out
Slight bug: Because I moved skype, ran it then moved it again, it has problems with opening the preferences (Icons missing and such). You'll need to relaunch skype when you move it back
- Ben