Add "User Templates" option

[macmule]

Hi there,

I'd like to see an option to create com.apple.dock.plist files in the user templates folder.

That way we could run 1 line that would update all current users docks & all templates docks, so new users get the changes.

Current workaround is to deploy a blank dock & then run each command twice:

The home templates are updated, but not all homes.. so presumably i need to run two lines of script everytime i wish to add an item:

1. For User Templates:
   sudo /usr/bin/dockutil --add '/path to some app' --homeloc '/System/Library/User Template/'
2. For All Existing Users:
   sudo /usr/bin/dockutil --add '/path to some app' --allhomes

Also, as (in @ least 10.8) the templates folders are empty.. create a blank plist OR copy the template from: /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/.lproj/default.plist.

Thanks.

[elvisizer]

+1 on this. I'd love to see this implemented as well.

[diwanicki]

reviving this, if I should start a new issue, let me know.

In dockutil 2.0, can you stack commands?

i.e.: is this legal -

dockutil --add /Applications/Firefox.app --after Safari --allhomes '/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj'

[jelockwood]

@diwanicki @elvisizer @macmule @kcrawford
Add my vote for this feature. In fact I came here specifically looking for a solution to manage the dock plist for the User Template.

Note that Catalina now users /Library/User Template/ as the location for the User Template folder as /System/Library/User Template is protected by SIP.

I did a sudo defaults read /Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist (and ones in other languages) and none of them seem to contain entries for dock icons like they used to in Mojave. Even after logging in as a user thereby triggering the creation of a home directory a users own ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist does not list such entries either.

Are they stored elsewhere now?

[jelockwood]

For what it's worth, in Catalina it does not look like any of the com.apple.dock.plist files in /Library/User Template/ actually contain any dock entries.

I can only presume that the content is being generated dynamically when a new user account is created along with its home directory.

I would still like a solution to being able to customize the dock so it applies to new user accounts. Unless someone can identify from where the information is being generated then the only solution I can see would be as follows.

1. Install dockutil
2. Install outset
3. Configure outset to run a login-once script to clean up a users dock, as this would only be run once it would remove (in my case) the broken icons but unlike settings via MDM would allow a user to later install the missing apps and re-add them to the dock

[kcrawford]

That’s what I do. Kyle Sent from Mobile

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On Oct 29, 2019, at 5:47 AM, jelockwood ***@***.***> wrote:  For what it's worth, in Catalina it does not look like any of the com.apple.dock.plist files in /Library/User Template/ actually contain any dock entries. I can only presume that the content is being generated dynamically when a new user account is created along with its home directory. I would still like a solution to being able to customize the dock so it applies to new user accounts. Unless someone can identify from where the information is being generated then the only solution I can see would be as follows. Install dockutil Install outset Configure outset to run a login-once script to clean up a users dock, as this would only be run once it would remove (in my case) the broken icons but unlike settings via MDM would allow a user to later install the missing apps and re-add them to the dock — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

[macmule]

Wow.. old issue, but do the similar.. closing off thanks