Dockset

It's like outset, but for your Dock. This wouldn't be possible without

Why?

Sometimes you want to add or remove an item from a user's dock when you're running as root. Maybe you're removing an unused piece of software with Munki or you are adding Chrome to a user's Dock during DEP.

What?

Dockset will add or remove an item to a user's dock either once or all the time.

Using it

Setup

This script assumes you have dockutil in /usr/local/bin. If you have it somewhere else, add the following to the LaunchAgent:

<string>--dockutil</string>
<string>/opt/bin/dockutil</string>

Building

Build this with Munkipkg.

Directories

Dockset uses four directories - add-once, remove-once, add-always, remove-always - all of these live in /Library/Application Support/dockset. You should drop a plist in these directories based on how often you want these managed. Important: the current user must be able to remove items from *-once, so it is easiest to set these to 777.

The plist - adding items

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>path</key>
    <string>/Applications/Google Chrome.pp</string>
    <key>replacing</key>
    <string>Safari</string>
    <key>position</key>
    <string>beginning</string>
    <key>name</key>
    <string>Google Chrome</string>
</dict>
</plist>

The plist - removing items

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>name</key>
    <string>Safari</string>
</dict>
</plist>