On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 17:18 +0100, zekopeko wrote: > > > > I suggest you look at Divvy[1]. Looks like a really nice way of > marrying a tilling manager to a non-tilling manager.
thanks! divvy is cool, we had that before in a months old Ayatana thread iirc, and i think i liked it already for its inspirational power back then ;) > If it was up to me I would copy Aero Snap when dragging to the edge Aero Snap features are already outdated, when you get to check Compiz Grid plugin in Natty, try it! > and would put a windicator for Divvy-clone on the right in the title bar. > Pressing the > button would produce a Divvy-widget allowing you to tile the window. Why clone if you can understand, abstract, learn, do it better? What is the main functionality of divvy? Painless window resizing to a grid. Now lets just enable a grid by default, snapping windows to it automatically upon resize, move and perhaps also upon scale. To override the snap-to-grid, just enable a modifier such as ALT or CTRL or SUPER, which would actually make a good metaphor for "float", since "super" is the latin word for over/above. Wouldn't that be sufficiently innovative and useful to justify *not* cloning other stuff ("taillight syndrome")? There was another thread about the Window Picker (Compiz Scale) being initiated if you click on a launcher, even when it has only one window. Why not rotate three functions on the launchers: * raise & focus * spread exposé * tile for dual-pane mode, as i mocked up above. if you're interested, i can scheme up how i imagine the "tile for dual-pane mode" scenario in detail.. but i think the dual pane thing is for the other thread (tiling and floating WM) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp