Click-dragging items over dock entry should bring window to front

[Jay S]

If I have a Nautilus window minimized or obscured, and I want to drag a file into it, I would like to be able to click and drag the file over Nautilus' entry in Docky to bring it to the front. This behavior exists in the Gnome Panel Window List and AWN.

Similar with other programs; if I want to open an HTML file in a minimized Firefox instance, I'd like to drag that HTML file to the Firefox entry in Docky and have the window restored.

Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit
Do 0.8.1.3

[Jack Senechal (jacksenechal)]

Ditto. I've tried to do that a few times and been frustrated when it didn't work. It'd be a lovely little feature if you ask me.

[The Fiddler (stapostol)]

I'd also love to see this.

One question is what happens when multiple windows are open at the same time. Do you use the scroll wheel to select the one you'd like? Do you get a list (icons) of all open windows and drop to the correct one (similar to Windows 7)? A combination?

Personally, I find the Win7 behavior very intuitive: you get a small thumbnail for each window represented by that icon and you can then drop to the thumbnail you'd like. However, I also find the scroll wheel functionality of Docky very intuitive - a combination of both approaches would be my preference.

Thoughts?

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Jason has a hotseating branch that would be perfect for this. Basically the icon group would hotseat, showing an icon for every window. These icons would allow Compiz window previews as well.

The nice thing with the hotseating is that you can also manage the windows individually (minimize/restore/close/etc).

I'm not certain if you can get scroll events during a drag, but that might also be reasonable (and if its possible, simple).

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Docky 1 (the Do theme version of Docky) has reached the end of its maintenance period and is no longer being supported. Docky 2 (the stand-alone application) is a complete rewrite and thus may or may not be affected by this bug.

Please feel free to install Docky 2 (PPA: https://edge.launchpad.net/~docky-core/+archive/ppa or souce: http://do.davebsd.com/wiki/Installing_Docky) and see if your bug still occurs. If it does, please file the bug against lp:docky (not lp:do!).

[lumbricus (lumbricus)]

I testet the bug with docky 2 - the described behaviour hasn't changed from docky 1. Neither dragging a file over an (running) application icon nor scrolling has any affect.

Testet on Ubuntu 9.10 with:
Docky 2.0.0-Alpha-1
bzr docky r1067

I added lp:docky as related branch, but I'm not sure how to use the branches in launchpad. Do we need a new bug report?

[Matthew Wardrop (mister.wardrop)]

Retargetting for Docky.