Extending the panel

[Michael Petnuch <MPetnuch us nomura com>]

For the future, I would like to request one large feature, that is of course
if other people find it useful and practical to.

One of the neatest things that I enjoy about Apple's dock ( the other is the
way the file menu and such is put into the top menu bar - but that would
quite a change from how it is done now that I don't think it would be
possible without a substantial effort) is the way it handles minimized
windows.

Although I have a task manager open I find it cumbersome when compared to
Apple's method of showing the window in the right of the dock.  This makes
finding open things much easier because I can see the window of the program.
Such is the case if I had multiple things open, instead of relying on
filename or something I could just look at the picture which is much faster.

So is their any home of such a thing being extended into the gnome panel.
Does any one else enjoy this feature?
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