Dynamic Dock

[bastianplsfix]

Hi,

I would love for a feature like Fleet's Dynamic Dock. I did use Fleet almost exclusively for two years because of the dynamic dock even though Fleet was lacking features. However, I made the switch now because they botched their UI and Zed really feels amazing with its plain text-editor feeling. I do miss only one feature and that is the dynamic dock.

Check it out at:
https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/

It works by giving you three "docks"/panes that can be shown or hidden by clicking CMD + 1, CMD +2 and CMD + 3 respectively. When opened you can select the tool you'd like to use, e.g. git, terminal, etc. I think this could be a really good fit for the Zed editor as well.

[P1n3appl3]

In case you weren't aware, zed does have docks and allows you to choose which panels show up in which docs in the settings:

"git_panel": { "dock": "right" },
"collaboration_panel": { "dock": "bottom" },
"outline_panel": { "dock": "left" },
"project_panel": { "dock": "right" },

You can also bind cmd+1/2/3 to toggle those:

"cmd-1": "workspace::ToggleLeftDock",
"cmd-2": "workspace::ToggleBottomDock",
"cmd-3": "workspace::ToggleRightDock"

As far as I can tell from a quick try of fleet, the gaps in functionality are:

• fleet's docks allow you to easily ("dynamically") select which panels are present in which docks.
  • you can open the same dock in multiple panels
• fleet's docks are treated as normal editor panes, so they can contain buffers, splits, and tabs (edit: upon further testing it seems that they only allow a single vertical split on the left and right docks, and a single horizontal split on the bottom dock)
  • in zed the only dock panel which can contain multiple tabs seems to be the terminal. and you can't put normal editor tabs into the dock alongside those.
• in zed the toggle dock keybind always toggles it regardless of what's focused. in fleet a dock is open but not focused the first press focuses it and the second toggles it.

Could you elaborate on which of the above functionality you're interested in?