I agree with all of those points, and if you can port the NaturalWindowLayout thing from KDE (I started porting the Kompose one before I figured out it was useless) and get it working, that would be wonderful!
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Florian Kuhnt <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Freitag, den 18.03.2011, 14:10 -0400 schrieb Jasper St. Pierre: >> It was initially implemented that way because it was easier to do, and >> this workspace logic goes back to when the shell looked like: >> http://owtaylor.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/gnome-shell-20090209.png > > I remember that! And I didn't like it either. ;-) (I think it was the > time were I wrote the first entry on the bug) > > > Problems (in my opinion - am I wrong?): > > 1) Narrow Windows consume too much space. > In the top-right workspace the narrow bottom-right window consumes more > space than necessary. > > 2) Windows' relative size is not recognizable. > In the top-right workspace the bottom-left window seems to have the same > size like the two other similar looking windows - but, in fact, is much > smaller (see titlebar). > > 3) Grid makes Windows' positions less informative. > This is best seen if you place a window on the bottom-left and another > one on the top-right of a workspace (maybe overlapping) and compare the > patched behaviour with the currently implemented. > > > So far. > > Florian > > -- > Florian Kuhnt <[email protected]> > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
