On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 19:31 +0800, Sam Spilsbury wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 4:43 AM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com >> <frederik.nn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi Remco, >> > >> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 13:50, Remco <remc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 07:16, cmaglothin <cmaglot...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I agree. The only reason I ever boot into Windows is that I have to >> >> > annotate >> >> > movies for a class, and Snap makes it very easy to do with just two >> >> > clicks. >> >> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:34 PM, David Hamm <davidth...@gmail.com> >> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> in fact i'd say it almost a upgrade deciding factor for vista to 7 >> >> >> >> You'll like Compiz Grid. I think Frederik's idea is simply a mouse >> >> interface to Compiz Grid. >> > >> > yeah, essentially, i would love to see stuff snapping to an invisible grid. >> > This could then be disabled by holding a modifier key such as [ALT]. >> > By default, snap to grid should be enabled for: >> > * moving windows >> > * resizing windows >> > * scaling windows >> > i also suggest strongly to consider window controls as nothing else than >> > what the name suggests: >> > controls for the window at hand. >> > often, we are confronted with the question whether or not closing a window >> > will quit the app contained in it. >> > This is poor design, i mean, window controls are not well designed, if they >> > affect the service instead of only the window. >> > Now about Compiz Grid.. it's remarkable, the windows7 thingy is fully >> > implemented and of course completely configurable to the corner and pixel >> > ;) >> > i jast had an easy time splitting my screen in two halves.. took me 2 >> > click-drag-releases. >> > Thanks to whoever did that in Compiz! >> >> It was scott :) He's a dude. > > thank you, Scott! > >> >> Apologies to hijack this thread - I have already got a sample >> implementation of implementing a resize grip area set by the theme >> which is larger than the borders and it vastly resolves the precision >> problem. It requires a patched metacity though > > now.. how would we do that then?
Compile my stuff and try it? You need to tweak the themes manually though. > now that compiz grid is all pretty like that, i can't wait to get my > hands on some physical object resistance.. so i can use the border of > one grid-placed window to bump against and push the border of another > window.. i'd need proper resize handles for that first. I for one am > interested in checkin thiz out! > > i thought maximumize would be able to help with that, but i think that's > a different process.. looks to me more like a new feature. Maximumize expands windows to fill available space > In bluetile (thanks OmegaYear), adjacent gridded windows share 1 border, > so if you move it, you resize both windows at the same time. > You mean like a tiling wm kind of thing? That would be kind of cool to implement. I had thought about the best way to do this, but it is tricky, I'd need to sit down and figure out the most natural way to combine a floating and tiling wm in this case. I've wanted to do it for some time, just, I have had no time to do it yet. > I think this might deserve some consideration, too. > > -- Sam Spilsbury _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
