No PIN options in Mate Dock when used in custom layout

[Douglas Hitchcock]

I'm using beta of 18.04, so Mate Dock 0.83. If you run in Mutiny layout, pinning to the dock seems to work right. If I switch to Redmond layout, but remove the task list and add the dock instead, the pin options are missing.

[Alexander Browne (elcste)]

I saw this as well on a new install of today's daily (2017-03-15).

With the default layout, I added the Dock to the top panel (and delete the bottom panel), and there was no app pinning menu option.

[Alexander Browne (elcste)]

I see there's a new release (v.0.84) added to the archive today, but the 2017-03-15 manifest lists 0.83. But it looks like this <https://github.com/robint99/mate-dock-applet/commit/4463a90fdf7b4f650fadaab12ff50436474e1d5d> was the only change, so I don't think it will help.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Robin Thompson (robin-thompson99)]

Hi, I'm the author of the dock applet.

Quick question, is the pin option completely missing - i.e. if there is no pin option in the applet right click menu, what happens when the mouse pointer hovers over an app icon in the dock ?

[Douglas Hitchcock (clarkaddison)]

Sure enough, hover and there's an option for it... I had no idea to look for it there, I would suspect others may struggle to discover it also. But I'm satisfied now knowing it's there.

[Robin Thompson (robin-thompson99)]

Thanks for the info.

I've managed to reproduce the problem. It seems to occur only when the Mutiny layout is selected and then, without changing any of the dock settings (e.g. pinning or unpinning apps), the layout is changed and the dock added to another panel. The settings from Mutiny are not carried forward to the new dock...

Since this is affecting more than one person and is obviously causing confusion I've produced a workaround for this, and it'll be released shortly.

It works as follows:

    if you've previously configured a non-Mutiny dock, switched to the Mutiny layout, switched away without changing any dock settings and then added the dock to another panel, you'll get the old pre-Mutiny dock back, which is probably what you'd want.

    if you've never run the dock before, or you have but changed any of the Mutiny dock settings, these settings will be retained if you change layout and use the dock again.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mate-dock-applet - 0.85-0ubuntu1

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mate-dock-applet (0.85-0ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release. (LP: #1755835)

 -- Martin Wimpress <email address hidden> Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:06:57 +0000