Comment 5 for bug 395991

BUT if you made it a "checkbox option", it wouldn't *necessitate* the summoning functionality which you find so limiting. Here's a larger scope of what I'm thinking:
there are those who use docky b/c (like me) they like to have the dock functionality AND the launcher w/o having 2 apps manage it
there are those who use docky b/c they like to have the dock functionality w/ the launcher *integrated* (i.e. no separate box)
there are those who use docky b/c it makes for a nice, simple dock.
splitting the project would lose you two of these three categories of users (and I doubt that the third accounts for more than 10% of docky users)