Pin/unpin dock autohide
- Dominant language
- Vala
- Stars
- 111
- Forks
- 42
- Avg merge
- 2d 12h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 4
Description
### Problem
Sometimes the dock needs to be hidden
Sometimes temporarily the dock needs to stay visible for a bit
It can be a bit annoying to hunt for the setting in the settings panel when the dock is right here
### Proposal
This is purely me seeing a feature in another dock and going "I want it!!!!" but the dock from MainstreamOS has a "Pin" togglebutton. When toggled, it keeps the dock "always visible". When untoggled the dock uses the intelligent hiding setting.
On a squonched dock in the center everything is crowded, but if [Appmenu in dock](https://github.com/elementary/dock/issues/337) and [Expand the dock](https://github.com/elementary/dock/issues/597) together gets in the dock suddenly has a ton of empty space that makes more items "ok"
If the proposal is rejected, we might just implement it as a patch for our install. It feels very much out of scope
### Prior Art (Optional)
_No response_
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reviewing how the dock's existing intelligent hiding setting is exposed and how the dock currently switches between hidden and visible states. Compare the proposal with issues #337 and #597, then define the pin toggle's behavior and UI placement. Done means a pin control keeps the dock always visible when enabled and restores intelligent hiding when disabled.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100