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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.
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.
Seems like quarter tiling is a nice start, with additional splitting when dragging a window over another as shown in the OP.
Looks really interesting, hopefully this can be a step forward for window management as a whole
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 👍
I’ve been using paperwm on gnome for a couple years now, it’s my preferred paradigm for tiling. This looks like it has a lot of the same influences, so I’m interested in seeing where it goes
I haven’t seen this paperwm. I’ll have to check it out.
PaperWM really should be its own DE. It’s so good, almost perfect, but held back by its nature of merely being a GNOME extension.
You’re not wrong about that at all. I thought about making a Wayland WM TM around that idea, but programming is work and not fun now so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Looks awesome, I can’t wait.
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.
I always disliked Gnome because of this and also because it seems like the developers want to force their tastes and use cases to everyone else. You either learn to work their way, or move out. That’s one of the many things I like about KDE, despite the devs having their preferred default way of doing things, they leave options for the users to decide in an easy way (i.e. having everything in the settings menu, without needing to download and install a separate program or manually editing config files)
putting thumbnails in the file selection dialog
Could you elaborate what you by this?
When you pick a file to upload or open from inside another application, the GTK/Gnome file picker does not allow you to have a thumbnail view of all the files. It is a meme in the Linux community at this point since there was a bug filed in 2004 asking for this feature, some even writing patches to make it work. Gnome devs refuse to change how the file picker works however.
If this becomes a Wayland protocol, then I’d love to see other desktops adopt it as well.
I could see a few classic TWMs use those hints, or at least expose them for users to script functionality.
When I was using Gnome on a laptop, I really enjoyed the PaperWM tiling manager extension. It’s not exactly something that can be used with a mouse, but it’s a really pleasant touchpad/touch first multitasking interface, where instead of having traditional workspaces that are constrained to the size of your monitor, you basically get infinite horizontally scrollable workspaces that are a joy to navigate with a touchpad.
Went tentative, left excited. Honestly it sums up my hopes for float/tiling window future.
Ive been using Pop OS which has their own Gnome extension (Cosmic? or Pop Shell?)for tiling/floating windows management and it works really well for me. Its toggle-able and adjust window size and placement pretty well imo.
That would be really awesome! Especially if it could learn your preferences automatically by how you change the default arrangement.
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. :(
