On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 20:10 +0100, Oliver Mangold wrote: > Hi, > > after a lot of checking I decided to continue on this for now by adding > to tabbing/tiling features to the mutter source itself instead of as a > gnome-shell plugin. Main reason for the decision is that I want to have > tabbing. And for this a lot of extensions would have to added to mutter > to do it from outside. I try to isolate my additions from the mainline > mutter as far as possible. Design goal is to make it easy to separate is > mainline mutter and what are tabbing/tiling additions. I hope with time > it will become clear what are the minimal additions necessary to the > mutter base. Than can be sorted out which parts we should aim to get > into mainline.
I've been following the back and forth between you guys regarding if this should be done as an extension or not. Being new to gnome-devel and quite unfamiliar with the design I have no opinion which of the two is the approach. Either way, I'd really love to see this implemented. > As said, any help with the project is still welcome. Seeing as I don't know which approach is best, might as well learn by doing and give you a hand, Oliver. > What needs to be > done for now is: > - adding some more keybinds for convenience, e.g. to change the order of > the windows in the same tile or to cycle through the untiled windows > - changing the referencing concept (the tilings should reference the > windows instead of the other way round). this makes sorting windows > easier and is less intusive to mainline code > - adding save/restore tiling layout from/to config. I would like to get > my tilings back after login/logout (maybe it is even possible to restore > the windows in the original tiles). > - getting started with tabbing (this means figuring out how to add this > to the frame) > - and of course testing and bugfixing > > If anyone would like to do any of this, that would be great. Send me a > mail, I probably can help you getting started. > Best, > > Oliver Some pointers on where to start would be very helpful. Hopefully, I'll have some time to get started this weekend at the latest. Regards, Peder _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
