It should be nice to use only docky and completely forget about gnome-panel. But at this moment notification area, network manager and a clock aren´t implemented at docky, so is you use docky to must keep using gnome-panel.
It should be nice to use only docky and completely forget about gnome-panel. But at this moment notification area, network manager and a clock aren´t implemented at docky, so is you use docky to must keep using gnome-panel.