Customization:
Icons, Skins, Docklets
Overview

Although preloaded with skins and icons, rocket dock’s themes may just be too boring and simple for some people. To add different skins and icons, there are various websites (including Rocket dock’s website) to give you the look and feel that you want. Deviantart is the best solution to finding dock icons, dock skins, dock icon packages, and more because of the wide variety of creative artists that upload their work onto this site.

Icons

Here is an example of a 3d cartoony dock set made by ~deleket

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To use dock icons, simply right click on one of your applications on your dock. Then go to icon settings and click the “+” button to browse for your icon.

Skins

For those of you who obsess over getting the exact Macintosh dock, deviantart offers many identical solutions.

This is “Yet another Leopard Dock” by ~alabanco

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You can also get Mac Dock icons like the one shown above.

Docklets

A very popular feature in a Leopard Dock are Stacks. Stacks allow a more clean, organized desktop by allowing you to view your files such as your downloads folder to open up in a fan or grid style.

Keeblet’s Dock with stack effect on “My Documents”

Now to get this stack effect for Rocket dock, simply download the Stack Docklet here.

To install and use, extract the StackDocklet folder into your Docklets folder (Local Disk -> Program Files -> Rocketdock -> Docklets)

To set up a stack icon, right click on your dock, go to add item and click on Stack Docklet. Then set the file path and icon of your choice.