On 13-Apr-2002 Moe wrote:
> Hi out there,
>
> i'd like to propose a few enhancements to window placement
> in blackbox:
>
> 1. Fully automatic mode ("Grid mode")
>
> Sometimes I'm really not in a mood to touch my mouse and
> move windows around. It'd be cool if blackbox had an option
> "no overlap" (or something) that makes it automatically resize
> all windows for them all to remain visible even when there
> is no pixelspace left and a new window pops up.
> Especially when working with a large number of xterms I'd often
> prefer to handle my screen more like a grid (moving the border
> between two windows shrinks one and enlarges the other) than
> having to arrange everything manually - never reaching
> ultimo satisfaction with the "pixel-waste-ratio".
> In that mode there should be a "fix"-flag to be manually
> set on windows that are never to be auto-resized. Also
> an option that makes bb consider the currently focus'ed window
> always "fixed" seems handy to me.
>
This is hard to implement properly. What happens when the windows on the
screen are not all of uniform size?
>
> 2. No Overlap ("the other mode")
>
> Another nice gimmick to have would be a mode that turns all windows
> "invincible". So when moving or resizing one, you can never cross the
> borders of another. Maybe a Meta-Keycombo would do for this.
> (holding CTRL+ALT while resizing or something)
>
interesting idea, does not seem to hard to implement. Although I tend to
believe that if the user is performing the action they should be able to see
the screen and react according ly. You should be able to implement this
algorithm with your advanced spatial recognition abilites bestowed by nature.
Why add a less well designed engineering solution?
As always, if someone makes a patch, these ideas can at least be reviewed.
