Window management suggestion

[BJ McCormick <bjmccormick gmail com>]

Hey all, I'm sure everyone is throwing in their 2 cents so I will too. Been using gnome-shell exclusively the past few weeks and I really like it. I miss having a window list so I started using Docky which is good but not great. I posted this idea when compiz was new and no one looked at it, but now Windows 7 seems to have started implementing something like this.

My idea is as follows:

Have no taskbar along the bottom, but instead use window position to determine window size. For example, like windows 7, dragging a window to the top edge will maximize. There are other interactions that make sense in this context. Dragging a window to the bottom edge can shrink the window to a thumbnail or an icon (or a thumbnail with an icon superimposed). I'm not even sure that input redirection works yet, but if it does you could make the windows shrink as they got lower on the screen so that you could still see what was happening without turning it in to an icon. Using left and right edges to tile windows is pretty nifty as well but I think we could think up some pretty cool use cases if we really tried. 

If anyone thinks this idea has any merit, I'll work on developing some more ideas or whatever. I can't program though :'(