The drag-and-drop logic currently expects the different RadDocking instances to be hosted in one Window element, more specifically, in the MainWindow of the application.

We could add support for different instances being hosted in separate Window elements that will support dragging and dropping operations.

Updating the ThemeSizeHelper by incorporating the margins of GridSplitters and AutoHide areas would significantly improve the flexibility and convenience of better switching between Windows 11 and Windows 11 Compact themes within the RadDocking control.

Currently, if the RadPaneGroup contains only a single RadPane, its header is not displayed on the bottom of the control. Instead, you see it only in the Title area of the group.
Add mode that allows to keep the header of the pane at the bottom when there is only a single RadPane element.

Currently, you can drag and drop panes only in their parent RadDocking control. Allow dragging from one RadDocking to another.

Allow defining an additional "preview" tab that is shown at the right most part of the tabstrip area. This tab should have a special highlighting like faded tab header or a different background. This is similar to the Visual Studio preview tab that is displayed when you use the Go to Definition (F12) function on an API name. Usually you have a single preview tab.

Currently, the GridSplitter used for resizing an unpinned pane disappears after a certain threshold. We could include an option for it to not disappear.

Currently, the length between the pane groups and split containers is hardcoded. Add a property on the docking, the pane groups or the containers that will allow to determine the length of the resizer (the RadGridResizer).

We could improve the drag-drop functionality of the RadDocking control when the FlowDirection="RightToLeft".

The CaptionHeight property of ToolWindow determines the height of the area where you can start dragging the window, starting from the top edge of the window. Currently, ToolWindow is using a fixed height based on the default title's content. However, the Title and TitleTemplate properties allow you to introduce a title with bigger height. In this case, if the title height is bigger than the default CaptionHeight, you cannot start dragging if the mouse is under the CaptionHeight's position.

Adjust the CaptionHeight dynamically, according to the actual title content height.

Currently, the RadPaneGroup has one Grid layout with Margin="5" present in its control template, which causes the Content of each child pane to be indented according to the Margin property's value.

To work this around, extract the control template, with x:Key="RadPaneGroupDocumentHostControlTemplate", and modify the Grid layout, which has its Margin property set to 5. After that, create a new style with TargetType="RadPaneGroup" and set its DocumentHostTemplate property, to the modified one.

Add a visual element to display the exact drop location of an item, when reordering panes in a pane group.

Currently Minimize\Restore\Maximize buttons are not shown in the ToolWindow's header, so there are some inconveniences in use. For example, it's impossible to minimize tool windows easily.

Allow floating panes from the auto-hide area as this can be done from a pinned RadPaneGroup.

Currently when ScaleTransform is used ether on the RadDocking control or its container the compasses/drop cues which are shown when docking a RadPane instance have incorrect scaling and are placed incorrectly.

By design the control's scaling is determined by the scaling of the OS environment.

Hi,

 

In most docking applications (Telerik WinForms, Visual Studio), it is possible to right click on the pane-tab header and get the options:

- New Horizontal Tab Group

- New Vertical Tab Group

- Move to Next Tab Group 

etc.

 

This would nice in WPF as well

 

/Brian

 

 

The flyout element is the popup that shows the current RadPane when when it is unpinned in the auto-hide area. Currently, the min width of the flyout is hard-coded to 50. Allow changing this value.

Add shortcuts like:
- close a pane by mousewheel click on the tab
- close the active pane by keyboard shortcut (e.g. Ctrl + W)
- switch active pane by Ctrl + Tab

A property can be exposed to control the Width/Height of the RadGridResizers between the different elements and their respective Margins.

Show a navigation window for navigating between panes when the user presses Ctrl+tab. 

RadDock for WinForms has such feature: https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/dock/architecture-and-features/quick-navigator