https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485034
Bug ID: 485034
Summary: Feature requests for Custom Tiling
Classification: Plasma
Product: kwin
Version: 6.0.3
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Custom Tiling
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
So, all of this actually was a not so laid down "monologue" in Niccolò
Veggero's Telegram group. I am just reporting it here so that we all can
discuss it.
As a tiling scripts user, I feel as though the Tiling API is incomplete and
this is painfully evident when, pre-Tiling API, Bismuth would work really well
but, post-Tiling API, Polonium (which uses the Tiling API) is very much
limited.
In which ways, you ask?
The first enormous issue is that windows have to be shift-dragged to snap to
tiles. This is okay if we're looking at tiles like they are implemented in
PowerToys and it does overlap largely with that scope, but it isn't how tiling
window managers really work. In a tiling environment windows should be able to
be just dragged to other tiles, and the layout should be able to accomodate for
the change (sure, this is up to the script that is providing the actual tiling
engine implementation, but still it cannot do this now and so it pains a lot of
people.)
Talking about shift-dragging, we should be able to shift-drag floating windows
even if we only have one big tile. Currently KWin won't allow shift-dragging
anywhere if you only have one window tiled in one tile, but Polonium exploits
the shift-drag functionality to split that tile into two and place the other
window besides the already placed one.
Lastly, there should be a way for tiling scripts to be able to provide clear
highlighted insertion points for windows (which would require one less hack -
that is, what I described above.) This could be done by repurposing desktop
corner snapping, or by providing edge-snapping inside tiles.
And still, I feel as though this would only scrape the surface. KWin's Tiling
API is a big promise, but far from complete; yet, I hope script developers and
KDE contributors can collaborate towards a common goal here.
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