Docky needs window manager docklet to allow easy tiling of windows

[Jonathan Lumb]

Feature Request: Docky should have a window manager docklet similar to the window manager plugin available in Gnome-Do.

When users have more than one window open in a workspace and need to drag and drop between various panes or refer to various windows at once, it would be handy to have a button on the dock that could be clicked to cause open windows to tile on the desktop neatly. Ideally, the button could later be clicked again, causing the windows to return to normal.

This feature is currently implemented in Gnome-Do and is almost essential to anybody using fairly small screens and doing research or for copying and pasting from web pages to text documents. It would be brilliant if this could be transplanted accross to Docky (I assume that this would be fairly simple seeing as the coding has already been done).

Here is a short video clip of what I would like implemented (note that the dock in the video is Gnome-Do and not Docky):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E4sOqe8bSM

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Thanks, I already started one. ;-)

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Oh, but this feature is currently blocked by some new UI feaures we are working on so don't expect it very soon.

[Jonathan Lumb (jonolumb)]

Haha... sorry for doing everything the wrong way. I'm used to filing bugs, but not feature requests! Don't worry, I'm still happy using Gnome-Do with Docky at the moment but would love to be able to make the transition to Docky sometime in the future so that I can gain from some of the other nifty features on offer :-)

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Fixed in rev 1735.

And FYI, I just took the code from Do so it should behave pretty similar to how you are used to it. :-)

[Jonathan Lumb (jonolumb)]

Hi Robert

Thanks for updating feature request! I'm subscribed to the Docky Dev PPA so I hope to be able to test this out soon.

Jonathan

[Jonathan Lumb (jonolumb)]

Brilliant, that works perfectly so far!

Thanks :-)