As with docky - drag an image over GIMP icon to open that image in GIMP.

Is it possible with gnome-shell? I'd like to tackle that as I'm quite proficient in JS/coffee, but I don't know much about gnome-shell API. No problem on JS/html5 side.

First: Thanks for this great extension!

When there are multiple monitors, and the main display is not the leftmost (one can drag the bar between monitors in the display settings), then the dock does not autohide.

Apps such as Inkscape and Gimp need to be used maximized and fullscreen, so this extension is incompatible for many people's workflow until this bug is fixed.

This extension currently crashes gnome-shell when you try to change workspaces in 3.6.
The error looks something like "st_widget_get_theme_node called on the widget which is not in stage". It could be because you're causing some kind of reparenting.

This is more of a feature request than an issue, and actually two of them:

1: It should be possible to set the mouse over time. I'm sure there are many different instances that this could be useful, but mostly if I'm trying to do something on the left side of a full screen window the dash can become visible which is distracting, and just should not happen without at least a delay. Perhaps another possibility would be to have a sort of small area with an icon of some kind that would be clicked to then show the dock, of course that could also be optional?

2: Is it possible to also implement the auto hiding feature inside of the overview as well?

Using Fedora 17 on a VirtualBox (yes... I don't like this but at this time I need to use Gnu/Linux like this). If I compile and install gnome-3.4 branch, installed and restart gnome, a problem appears:

Moving windows, or maximize, or when dock makes hides/show process, the full screen isn't refreshed and some artifacts appear.

Deactivate extension removes the problem.

Best regards

Hi,

In one head setup when you expand the dock its reserve space to not overlap window behind it. But in my case.

Two monitor (with the Nvidia proprietary driver) its seems not working.

==> If i setup the dock to be exanded on the second monitor its working.
==> If i setup the dock on the main/principal monitor the space is not reserved.

MatheusLigabue on the extensions site wrote:

I have a question. Is there a way I could assign a different style for the dash on Overview only in my gnome-shell theme? I've tried using #dashtodockContainer:overview, but to no avail. The thing is, while I would love to use a transparent style for the dock globaly, it doesn't look very good when I open up the notifications bar with Super + M. So I wish to set an opaque style for the desktop and an transparent style in the overview, for it to match the other elements of my theme.

It is convinient to switch between multiple windows of one application by clicking its icon.
This behavior is implemented in awn and docky, making them quicker than the dash-to-dock extension.
I think dash-to-dock can be better then both, because is more integrated in the shell.

PS: I like your dash to dock extension, it should be included in gnome.

Hello.
Im using the current release from extensions.gnome.org, with totally stock setup.
I am experiencing issues with the area where the dock appears to hide (the right side of secondary display, with the size and position of hidden dock). Any mouse events are not passed to underlaying window (like browser, I cant move or scroll the page).

Use single click instead of shift click to maximize minimized window when only one window is open

Your extension was so nice that I added a style for it to my GTK+Shell theme, GnomishBeige. Unfortunately, it has a big memory leak. When the dock is set to auto-hide, with every cycle of auto-hiding and reappearance, it consumes about 1MiB more memory.

I've also seen other extensions that show memory leaks. The leak may be related to Gnome-Shell itself.

I'm trying the latest version up for review that's the first release with the app button. Works well so far. The new Journal extension for GS 3.6 places a history button on the default GS dash. Although it's probably too early to offer compatibilty w/the new Journal extension(which has yet to be posted to the extension site), I'd thought I'd provide a heads up for future compatibility.

https://github.com/seiflotfy/gnome-shell-zeitgeist-extension

Man, i love your extension, cycle trough windows by clicking on then in the dock is exactly what i was looking for. But i didn't knew it until i tried it ;-). And the settings panel and the other stuff is nice too. So please, add a README to this repo and let me now how i can buy you (and your fellows) a couple of beers.

The dock's location is not updated when screen settings change dynamically. This happens when new monitors are added or removed (such as with a docking station, adding a projector for a presentation, etc.), resolution is changed, and when screens are rotated (such as having an external monitor, and switching to portrait mode for web browsing & web development).

Currently, one must restart gnome-shell with alt-f2 and typing "r" (and hitting enter). It would be great if the extension can handle these changes automatically.

Hello Michel,
do you think there is a way to add some border or margin to the desktop area to avoid having the desktop icons behind the dock?

Regards
Markus

Environment: Ubuntu 11.10, Gnome Shell 3.2

The changes made in commit a2c00f7 break the extension for me, the dock does not show up any more (even on the activites-screen). Reverting this commit makes it work well again.

Hi,

It would be great to add adjusting size of the dash/dock. Your extension much better that dock (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/17/dock/) but it lacks this feature IMO.

Thank's

On the new style lockscreen on gnome 3.6 (the GDM one that slides up to reveal the password box), the dock is visible over the lockscreen.
The icons on the dock are fully clickable also.

Make full height size of screen as active zone to shows dock.

First: thank you for the extension. It makes my life a lot easier.

I just updated to the gnome-extension.org latest version. Up until the last release everything has been working well. I could xrandr my secondary monitor as primary and it worked without issue. After the latest release the dock floats about 100 pixels off the left side while hidden, then moves further over when moused over.

Thanks,
James

I'm not sure why, but the position of the Dock is now centered and there's no option to use the system's default placement. This is very annoying, I much prefer the default position rather than a centered one. Please add back in the option to use the "system default" placement.

It would be great if the dock height could be modified. For example to the height of the screen.

Thanks

This is just a feature request on this awesome extension.
Could you add some keyboard shortcuts to access the dock and start applications in it easily? Something like holding SUPER/SYSTEM key to bring up the dock and then a number/letter to launch an application? Each one should launch a new instance of the application. This upgrade plus window navigation extension just rock the GNOME-Shell.

Thanks!

I tried to hack it myself, but realized I would probably have to change the entire code. Is there an easy way?

@l300lvlwrote in Issue #1

Is it possible to also implement the auto hiding feature inside of the overview as well?

On the extension site the user AXP wrote:

Please, add option "Show running applications only from current workspace"!!! like in this extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/440/workspace-separation-on-dash/ Thanks!

Currently, when there is not enough space for a new icon, size of icons decreases too much (e.g. 48 → 32) and there is plenty of unused space above and bellow the dock. Is it possible to decrease icon size continuously to make space usage more efficient?

If you open a panel window (say the calendar) and click on the dock without closing it, then it will first close the panel window. This is as expected. But (left) clicking the icon again will bring up the right click menu. This is not as expected.

Note: tested on Gnome 3.6.

Usecase :

1. deactivate "Switch workspace when scrolling over the dock"
2. the user was scrolling his document with his mouse wheel but the dock suddendly appears behind the pointer and he can't scroll anymore without moving his mouse.

-> it would be great to allow user to scroll his document behind the dock even when the dock is shown (=the dock shouldn't interfere with page scrolling)

Thanks !

Thanks for this great extension. Do you think it's possible to make the dock look like Unity, i.e. set the height to the screen height and make it always visible?

Love the extension, I was wondering if we were gonna get an update? Running a newer version of Gnome.

I have the secondary monitor on the left and by default the dock appears between both monitors making it hard to hit it with the mouse. So I changed line 104 to: this.monitor = Main.layoutManager.monitors[1]; Maybe this can be transformed into an option, so far no side effects.

Nebulosa on the extension site wrote:

Don't switch workspaces on Gnome 3.8.1 when option "Switch one workspace at a time" is checked.

Note to myself: this is due to the introduction of smooth scrolling that is not currently handle as a possible event. When smooth scrolling event is triggered the direction of scrolling can be deduced from the sign of the relative movement.

It would be useful to (optionally) show the number of notifications, which were emitted by each application. An example can be seen in the following screenshot: http://cloudfront.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/screenshotae_thumb.png

I'm willing to propose a patch if you like the general idea.

The lack of this option is what made me remove this extension. I really liked the mouse wheel scrolling to change desktop, so the extension would probably still be in use if I could place the dock on the right hand side.

If I unselect "only when in autohide" the dock should become dark in every situation, but it works only when I change the configuration. If I restart the shell this configuration doesn't work, as if it were not loaded.

Gnome 3.4.2

I tried the extension through extensions.gnome.org, but decided to remove it. I deleted the extension directory from .local/share/gnome-shell/extensions.
After removal the settings in dconf still remain. These procedures do not help : restart Gnome Shell, logout/login, reboot, reinstall through extensions.gnome.org followed by uninstall through the same site.
I don't know if this causes any problems, but suspect it to just be an inconvenience.

Environment: Ubuntu 11.04 11.10, Gnome Shell 3.2

Intellihide does simply not work. On a plain desktop, the dock is hidden even if no window is there. I have the "classic" desktop (running a nautilus instance in background) enabled. 0211c4d did not change anything for me.

Hi,
I like this extension a lot. A moment ago I had an idea for update. First, I don't like the shortcut button for showing applications. It would be nice to have an option in settings for hiding this and let the user decide. Second, sometimes I'd like to have the extension on the right side of screen, because of the second monitor. So this option would be nice, too :)

Also I'm offering the contribution to this project. My name is Michal Zajacik, I hold bachelor degree in computer science. I'm pursuing msc degree in Artificial intelligence. Currently I'm visiting course of Opensource Programming. The goal is to teach us how to contribute to open projects and how to communicate with other developers. So I'd like you to offer my help. I have skills with Java (from school and work), C, C++ ... JavaScript just little, but I assume I would learn it easily. If you let me, I could do the adjustments by myself, help you with bug fixing or implementing any other functionality. I could provide also the knowledge of Czech language.

Feel free to contact me via mail [email protected] !

Thanks for reply!
Michal

When I switch the language into a right-to-left based language the extension does not switch the side of the dock.

This is a big problem, because the rtl-mode almost mirrors the whole desktop. When the dock doesn't switch to the right side both are on the same side and I cannot effectively use the workspaces-window in the overview.

@kabum wrote #11 (comment)

You mentioned the "open new window" action. Inside the dash overview this is done by a drag n drop to the workspace (also works with multiple monitors, so you can drop it also to the second - right - workspace)

Hope you implement this ;)

csrg on the extension site wrote:

Small problem: Autohiding does not work when moving windows with the "move-to-corner-<...>" keys that can be assigned in dconf /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings.

A useful addition to the extension would be an option to fix the locations of application icons in the dock and not shuffle them based on LRU order.

My favorite extension, replaces Docky. But needs 3.6 support now.

I am having problems with the extension "Apps On Top" and this extension used together.

Steps to reduplicate:

• Install Apps On Top
• Install Dash to Dock

Expected result:
Dash to Dock with the apps icon on top

Real result:
Dash to Dock with the apps icon below all other ones, in overview too.

It would be nice if there would be a option for that or just make Apps On Top work in Overview.

Is it possible to make dash on dock appear separately on multiple monitors? So for example, 2 docks, one on each monitor?

First of all thank you for that really nice extension, i really love it.

I have a black desktop background and always wanted to change the color of the hover fonts for the dash. As you can see in the attached screenshot the hover font isn't readable at all. I just sometimes recognize it if any other window is near the dash.

This may not be a specific problem with your extension, maybe it's a general gnome-shell problem as in applications overview the hover font is also unreadable in case of dark/black backgrounds. So i just wanted to mention it here, maybe it's an easy thing to optionally set a custom font color for the dash-to-dock extension somehow...

thanx for all, cheerz

I'm almost ashamed to request a feature given how many feature requests there are but I think it's clear they prove how popular the functionality provided by the extension is. Anyway I think it's a nice idea that is at least worth mentioning so here it goes:

Much in the same spirit that GNOME 3.8 will handle Activities (663661) and the Message tray (677215) I'd love to have the option to get the dock appear by applying pressure with the cursor to the area that the dock uses (basically almost always going to be the center of the left side). My current config is having (both) Autohide (and Intellihide) enabled with a show delay of 50ms, a number which took a bit testing to determine but even now there are some cases where I bring the dock without meaning to.

I have no idea how hard that will be to code although I think I read that making the Activities button pressure sensitive took significant coding so I could certainly understand if you opted against it (maybe their implementation is reusable?).

Hi,

on Ubuntu's left dock, there is a feature which I find quite useful: when pressing and holding , the icons in the dock each get a label (usually a number being the index of the icon from the top, except for the trash and some other special cases), and if the user press that label key before releasing , then it executes the corresponding application (and we can press several, executing several applications).

Would it be possible to implement that for dash-to-dock? In the case of auto-hide / intelli-hide, I guess we have to wait x-seconds, and then show it if the key trigger hasn't been released yet, so that we show the labels.

Whenever I log in, the dock doesn't show up until I turn the extension off and on again. If I restart the gnome shell, I have to manually restart the extension again.

Gnome 3.4.1

Here is a list of my enabled extensions:

Activities Button Text
Advanced Calculator
Advanced Settings in User Menu
Alternative Status Menu
Bigger MessageTray Corner
CPU Temperature Indicator
Dash to Dock
Enhance overview
Extension Updater
Frippery Move Clock
Media Player Indicator
Notifications Alert
Remove Accessibility
User Themes
Window Search Provider