Il giorno mer, 24/11/2010 alle 11.09 +0100, Andreas Wallberg ha scritto: > 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 >
I think this might be a good idea, even though I think it should be optional. I myself am seeing new users distracted by this and somethimes I just want to maximize a window. However there are hundreds of scenarios where this will be a lifesafer! Furthermore, do you think it should be configurable per workspace or all the workspaces should share the same config? Cheers, Alessandro _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
