I'm sure that most of you have already seen some kind of IDE like Anjuta or Eclipse, but maybe it's also featured by other applications. The basic concept is that we have one main window and few other which can be placed on the edges of the first one. That concept is being used for years. We can say that it's "must have" for programming environment. It's simply very practical and easy to use. If we have trusted solution why don't implement it in the desktop?
Some time ago I wanted to tweak my Fedora with some commands from the web. I moved the terminal to the right edge and browser to the left to make them both fill half of the screen. The browser required quite more space so I had to resize two windows one after another. It would be much easier if I could resize both of them in the same time. There is no need to uncover my desktop. Or another example. You are operating on in few window. Moving, copying, deleting. You need three windows opened in the same time and terminal (let's say that you have to change some permissions for example). You drag each of them to edge of the screen and it's done. I don't have to write how useful would it be for GIMP users. Let's combine it with dock hiding feature. I can imagine how many other improvements could be made basing on this one. For example you have nautilus hidden on the edge. You select some text or an image and drag it into a folder in the file manager to save it in proper format (it doesn't work like this right now, but we could do something about it). Imagine how easy would it be to collect resources for any kind of work? That would greatly increase usability of Gnome, wouldn't it?
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