Re: Zooming dock

[Heikki Keranen <heikrnen ees2 oulu fi>]

Have anyone thought that one function for the new MacOS X dock is to work
as a visual clipboard? I mean dragging some object from the application to
the dock, switching to another app and dragging the object into it. I
haven't used it so I don't now how it works precisely.

But recardless if that feature is in OS X, it would be a good candidate
feature if we want consistent, intuitive etc. behaviour.

	Heikki

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Mark wrote:
>  I was wondering what peoples opinion of a zooming dock is. I haven't
>used MacOS X, but I would imagine it work similarly to what the video
>shows on their site. Icons would represent thumbnails of the application
>specific content, they would be zoomed when the mouse is over them
>revealing more detail. Clicking an icon would remove the icon from the
>dock and bring up the document. Also icons on the destop could be moved
>to the dock and vice versa. I think this has been discussed a breifly in
>the thread "Running vs starting apps". I mainly would like to know if
>this would be a good direction for Gnome and if people would like this.
>I might want to do some experimentation with this if it sounds like a
>good idea.