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A hidden dock answers only on its own stretch of the edge, never the whole side. On top of that, busy edges wait for a deliberate pause before revealing, and a click anywhere sends a dock home instantly.
Traffic passes free; intent gets the dock. And the moment you click elsewhere, the dock is gone: no lingering, no waiting.
The intent delay is tunable in General: five stops, each one a real, distinct wait on the engine's own clock. The range starts at a quarter second because that is the engine's own floor on a busy edge: at any less, merely hesitating before clicking a menu title was enough to summon a dock. Nothing finer is offered than can be honored, so the number you read is the wait you get.
It guards only the busy edges: the top edge and boundaries between displays. Quiet edges stay instant (outside full screen, where edges answer to the knock instead).
And everywhere, the band is only as wide as the dock: pointing at an empty stretch of edge summons nothing.
A revealed dock doesn't linger while you work. The moment you click somewhere else (the desktop, a window, anything), it concedes, instantly. Clicking elsewhere is the universal "I'm done here".
While a menu is open (a menu-bar dropdown, a right-click menu), the busy edges go fully silent. That covers the edge a dropdown actually falls across: the top edge, where the menu bar lives, and any boundary you share with a second display. A menu is a decision in progress, and Docksmith does not interrupt decisions.
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