If you're building a theme, use the hot keys in composer. Make sure you type it in as "QuickLaunch" without the quotes exactly as I have typed it. The last tab will be the one you need to do this on the task bar. It can give you an error loading it but ignore it and proceed anyway once you load it in theme builder.
If you have a convenience key to spare you could use that instead of a home row icon space as well... I use the stock theme and still keep the QL icon hidden.
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