Rethinking Window Management – Space and Meaning
blogs.gnome.org
  • Shertson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    A good start would be to implement quarter tiling by dragging window to screen corner, like half tiling is done by dragging to screen edge.

    I have a 3840x2160 monitor specifically so that I can have four windows open at the best size for their content (email, document, web browse, and terminal) and can avoid the use of workspaces and see everything at once. Having to manually resize and place windows is a pain.

    • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Quarter tiling is huge on a 4K screen. I use a 4K screen when I’m doing YouTube programming videos sometimes and want to have OBS, a camera preview, an HDMI capture preview, and sometimes an app I want to put on screen open at the same time and quarter tiling is great for this. I currently have to use an extension to get this functionality on GNOME, but it would be awesome to have it built in.

      • InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Seems like quarter tiling is a nice start, with additional splitting when dragging a window over another as shown in the OP.

  • Nemo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Looks really interesting, hopefully this can be a step forward for window management as a whole

  • lynny@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 years ago

    Are they going to rethink putting thumbnails in the file selection dialog or many of their other insane decisions?

    Gnome seems like they want to take the Apple approach to UI design without the attention to detail that Apple’s UX has.

  • Bogasse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I love the direction this is going, I’ve been using i3/sway for years and gnome apps recently became awesome in tiling mode because of their responsiveness. If this is implemented this could definitely get me back on gnome 👍

  • Ozymandias@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    That would be really awesome! Especially if it could learn your preferences automatically by how you change the default arrangement.

  • slembcke@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    So I’ve used the Pop Shell extension. It’s really neat when you have a bunch of little windows like terminals and file browsers open. 95% of the time it’s actively annoying though. I appreciate that it’s on a toggle so I can use it when I want it. The proposed mosaic mode doesn’t seem terribly different, and has the same problem where it just randomly moves things around breaking my association of “where I put that”. Most of the time I really need the spatial aspect, and am willing to manage a few windows by hand to get it.

    Also: Joining half screen windows into a single unit?! Please don’t do it! D: Augh! Apple did that on OS X about the time I left and I absolutely hated it. It was so actively bad. :(