The latest version of Skype for Mac includes something called "code-signing". This is a feature available to developers to help prevent third parties from modifying their applications or application resources. Until now the Skype application has had a problem with letting the user change the dock icon or other image elements because of this code-signing. In addition to a new icon, one of the most called for additions to the Skype program is the ability to hide it from the dock.

I love the idea behind skype, and the ability it gives me to communicate with my friends that I cannot see as often because we are all away at college. Many previous attempts at performing the classic "NSUIElement" addition to the Info.plist file inside the of the application has been met with Skype either crashing on launch or telling the user that they cannot log their account on.

I have always hated dock clutter, especially from applications that do not need to be in the dock to start with. I have spent a long time searching for a method to rid myself of this skype icon from my dock. I have created a patching tool that will allow you to use Skype without having a dock icon to go along with it.

Notes
* This is a hack, it is not officially supported at all. I will try to make sure it works with future versions of Skype as well, but there are no guarantees
* This hack has only been tested to work on the most recent version of Skype (as of this posting), version 2.8.0.851
* Before installing this hack please enable your menubar icon. The whole purpose of this hack to remove the Skype icon from appearing in the dock when it is open.



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