The last panel on gnome is being a pain to delete. I've tried the gconfig editor or whatever and going to desktop -> sessions and deleting the required applet text.
Then when I kill it through the task manager it still just reopens itself, being a pain.
Is there any other way to delete the last gnome panel? I don't want any of them at the moment, just my dock.
Open gconf-editor, in desktop/gnome/session/required_components change the panel value from gnome-panel to your dock of choice.
Restart your session and your dock will be auto-started by gnome and re-spawned if needed.
Note that you will lose some keyboard shortcuts like ALT+F2 if you remove your last panel, if you need them you should just hide it.
I did that deleting the content of the panel property. Open gconf-editor and then go to desktop->session->required_components. Edit the panel property and delete the content. Next time you login gnome-panel won't be loaded.
To undo just set the property back.