What comes off
Everything on the dock comes off.
Everything you see on the dock is a choice we made. Take any of it off, and the dock carries on.
It ships switched on
Every addition we wrote arrives already running. The first launch is the whole dock.
Ours come off
The window list is one addition among them. Switch it off, and the dock keeps running.
Two permissions, both yours to grant
Window control and screen capture, granted by you in System Settings. Withhold either and the dock keeps running with less.
What you set stands
Drag something and that is where it stays, through a quit and a restart. What we shipped gives way to it.
Yours runs on the same footing as ours.
What we wrote gets the same priority, the same access, and the same exposure to being replaced as anything you write. A setting of ours comes off the way one of yours does.
That is what lets the next dock come from you.
How it behaves
It holds still, and it stays quiet.
It stays where you put it
The dock keeps the arrangement you gave it, overnight and through a restart.
It stays quiet
The dock shows your windows and your apps. Upgrades wait in settings, for the day you go looking.
A failure stays put
Each addition runs on its own, so the rest of the dock carries on and so do you.
Every choice is reachable
Settings hold each choice the dock makes, and each one is yours to set.