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Peter Kalab writes: there does not appear to be any way to close or hide the class navigator when it is docked to the bottom of the explorer. Docking it to Explorer->centre gives it a tab so it can be closed, but then re-opening it causes it to open in a separate window.
HideWhenAlone killed.