dragging an object over a docky icon of a running program should bring that program to the foreground

[zombiepig]

When you're dragging an object (eg file, link, etc), and hover the cursor over a docky icon of a running program, docky should bring the window of this program to the foreground after a short delay. This would match how gnome panel behaves, and it's a really useful for transferring data when you have lots of windows open, since it means you don't have to rearrange windows to drag-and-drop between them.
Hope there's plans to include this feature in docky in the future!

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

I have a branch where I'm playing with Compiz's Scale plugin and thought this was another great use case. Unfortunately calling the scale plugin while dragging an item doesnt seem to work. :-(

Anyway I will look into implementing it how you said too.

[radel (marco-bonomo)]

@robert: actually, the scale plugin in compiz works while dragging an object if you set desktop's corners triggers.

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

This is true, but it does not work when invoked via dbus while a drag is active. And that is what we need.

[Ikus-Soft (ikus-soft)]

Is there any progress on this item ??

[Ikus-Soft (ikus-soft)]

May someone tell us if there is plan to implement this item soon ?