Currently by rolling the mouse scrrol forward or backward over the icon of a docked application, that application is launched, in the case of a minimized application, the window is restored and when multiple instances are opened, toggles the application, focus between them. New possibilities could be added by scrolling the mouse forward, the behavior would continue as it currently is, scrolling backwards would minimize the application, with Ctrl + Scrool forward the window would be maximized.
the idea about minimizing with scrolling down mouse wheel it might have a chance to be implemented
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 416096 ***