WindowMaker should allow dragging of apps which are NOT running into the dock... (new feature)

[gcasa]

It should be possible to drag app icons into the dock from GWorkspace.

[gryf]

I'm not sure if this issue belong to Window Maker. In wmaker alone, you are able to add app icons to the dock just fine. IMHO this issue should be reported to GWorkspace instead.

[gcasa]

It seems that the duty to accept or reject a drag is on the receiver. I will make a short video to illustrate what I am talking about, if needed. Here is the use case I am after:

1. The user starts wmaker with the dock..
2. the user starts GWorkspace and navigates to where .apps are installed for GNUstep
3. The user drags an app from GWorkspace to the dock

Current behavior: The dock does not accept the drag
Desired behavior: The dock should accept the drag and add it to the dock.

Currently, the only way to add an app to the dock is to run the application and then drag that active application (running app) into the dock and that way it is added. On NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP adding apps to the dock was possible whether the app was currently running or not.

WindowMaker is a wonderful piece of software and this would be a nice to have. If you can give me any advice that would allow wmaker to accept the drag OR help me implement this for wmaker OR help you guys implement it then that would be super awesome.

Thanks.... full disclosure I'm the lead developer/maintainer of GNUstep. GC

[d-torrance]

I like this idea. Maybe it could even be extensible, like if a certain filetype is dragged to the dock, Window Maker could check to see if the user has installed a script to tell it how to turn it into an appicon. In addition to GNUstep apps, there might be one for XDG .desktop files.

[gcasa]

Hey guys. Let me know if you're going to implement this or give me some guidance on how to do this myself. Thanks.

[d-torrance]

This sounds like a fun feature to work on, and I might take a stab at it at some point, but I can't promise that it would be any time soon.

If you'd like to try, then you might start poking around in src/dock.c. I'm not certain that's the correct spot, but that's where I would start looking.

[gcasa]

This sounds like a fun feature to work on, and I might take a stab at it at some point, but I can't promise that it would be any time soon.

If you'd like to try, then you might start poking around in src/dock.c. I'm not certain that's the correct spot, but that's where I would start looking.

I believe I have found the relevant functions. I will make a fork and submit a pr when done.

[d-torrance]

I believe I have found the relevant functions. I will make a fork and submit a pr when done.

FYI, this Github repo is essentially just the bug tracker. Any patches should be sent (via git send-email) to [email protected]. See https://github.com/window-maker/wmaker/blob/master/The-perfect-Window-Maker-patch.txt.