Hi all! I often find myself wanting to have a main window taking up about 2/3 of the screen and a second window using the remaining space. I have not been very impressed with the tiling window managers that I have tried over the years as they seem to lack the flexibility that I need to get my work done, like switching between tiling and non-tiling and defining areas and borders and so on.
While working on an illustration in Inkscape it struck me that Gnome Shell could perhaps provide a working interface to simple tiling by borrowing the concept of guidelines. Basically, I suggest having a window guideline for the X-axis and for the Y-axis of a workspace, which should be accessible from the "workspace" interface to freely subdivide a workspace into a maximum of 4 areas. Pressing the maximize button on a window while in one of those areas would maximize the window to fit that area. Dropping an application launcher or window in that area would start it and/or resize it to the area. When looking at the workspace overview, the windows should retain the position and dimensions. I am sure there are some usability aspects of this that needs to be assessed but I think it is a novel approach to non-overlapping windows that should be discussed, before it is dismissed :-) I link to a fugly mockup here: http://db.tt/DaUaP2Y Best regards, Andreas -- Do you want to tell me a secret? My Public key can be downloaded from the link below to ease encrypted private conversation using a desktop email client. Vill du berätta en hemlighet? Min krypteringsnyckel kan laddas ner från länken nedan och användas till krypterad konversation med ett vanligt epost-program. https://keyserver2.pgp.com/vkd/SubmitSearch.event?SearchCriteria=andreas.wallberg%40gmail.com&EmailOrName=2&SearchType=0 _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
