I think it would be more reasonable to enable a grid for resizing windows. And moving a window should also default to gridded steps. Lifting a window out of this grid should be possible with a modifier for example ALT+SUPER.
After this is implemented, the importance of having keyboard shortcuts for percentual pseudo-maximisation is likely to decrease drastically. Also is it important to remember a windows position, which is far easier with a fixed set of grid nodes than with XY coordinates. A grid can be defined as e.g. 16 steps of the horizontally available screen width and 9 steps of vertical estate for a typical widescreen resolution setup. This is a pretty finite grid definition, which would make it easy to "tile" a window or an other kind of object upon drag & drop or move. XY "float" coordinates can not achieve the speed, simplicity and precision of an interface such as grid. On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 02:45, Gabriel Pettier <gabriel.pett...@gmail.com>wrote: > Le dim. 26 févr. 2012 01:21:44 CET, frederik.nn...@gmail.com a écrit : > >> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 22:08, Gabriel Pettier >> <gabriel.pett...@gmail.com<mailto: >> gabriel.pettier@gmail.**com <gabriel.pett...@gmail.com>>> wrote: >> >> Le jeu. 23 févr. 2012 12:48:46 CET, gabriel pettier a écrit : >> >> Hi everybody >> >> First, i want to point I'm overall very very happy with Unity >> efforts, and i speak out loud about it since Natty, it's a >> great thing, and it helped increasing my productivity a lot, >> while getting me back to a more "standard" desktop (was using >> wmii before, as gnome ergonomic didn't feel productive at all). >> >> However, in Oneiric, something that I, and a lot of people >> that i know use, have been broken, and as i understands it, >> the current intend is not fix it, or provide an alternative >> solution, but to break it further, for consistency, and i'm >> quite disappointed about it. As bug reports and their numerous >> duplicates about this didn't lead to a fix, i understand it's >> something which has to be discussed with the design team, to >> find a solution that is both useful to proficient users, and >> new users that shall not be confused. >> >> I'm talking about the resize cycling of windows when using >> ctrl-alt-numpad. When unity went out, in Natty, using >> ctrl-alt-4 and ctrl-alt-6, the first use would semi-maximize >> left or right, and any consecutive press would change the >> size, not the position, of the window, that allowed to quickly >> organize windows, without being forced to the 50%/50% ratio. >> For me, it was a selling point. >> >> Oneiric broke it, with more than a few bug reports about it >> (#878820 #879218 #893017 and others, sometime wrongly marked >> as duplicate of #876591 which is different and was fixed). >> Discussions in #878820 indicate that while the same behavior >> for 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 is still working (albeit not nearly as often >> useful), the fix will be to break them too. >> >> What I don't get is what is the problem with this behavior? >> What's the rational to break it (although as i understand it, >> the break wasn't intentional at first)? And, in the end, is >> there any way to either get it back and adapt it to new >> keyboard shortcuts (as i understand there is change to come on >> that front)? >> >> Please keep in mind that i appreciate your work, and just want >> the awesomeness in unity to shine, not to disappear, i more >> than welcomed the default activation of Tiling in unity, and >> the vast superiority those keyboard shortcuts conveyed, to the >> equivalent features in windows OS, and I'm just saddened this >> *killer feature* just disappeared. (In fact, i was expecting >> improvement on the tiling front, like stacking, moving a >> window from one screen to another in dual screen and such, but >> hey, that could wait). >> >> Anyway, thanks for your time and your consideration. I really >> hope we can find a solution to this issue. >> >> >> I have a hard time beleving i'm the only one concerned about this >> here, some people are building vanilla compiz grid plugin to get >> that behaviour back >> >> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/__**compiz-plugins-main/+bug/__**878820<https://bugs.launchpad.net/__compiz-plugins-main/+bug/__878820> >> >> >> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/**compiz-plugins-main/+bug/**878820<https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz-plugins-main/+bug/878820>> >> see >> #34). Nobody miss the grid size cycling here? >> >> >> I think good work is being done on the tiling. >> For example we now have a visual indication for whether or not a window >> is being tiled: the rounded window corners now disappear, once a window is >> semi-maximized to either the left or the right screen half. >> This doesn't work for vertical stacking of tiles yet, but i'm sure it >> will be fixed soon, too: >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/**ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/**694302<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/694302> >> >> unfortunately, the more (fancy) features you have in an application, the >> more expert manpower it will bind in maintenance. >> The overall quality of a set of code is easier to maintain, if the code >> is lean and focused on doing one thing well. >> >> > Yeah the real semi maximised state is nice progress, it's the loss of a > very useful feature that worry me. >
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