I happens to be at a place where i have to use windows 7, and i understand the grid modification happens to be a near copy of the windows behaviour, now, i understand the use of having universal keyboards shortcuts, but can we have the old behaviour somehow? Like setting a "resize cycle" option somewhere? (and the up arrow would allow cycling between maximized/half up/half down/restored size).
Just some thought. Regards. 2012/2/26 Gabriel Pettier <gabriel.pett...@gmail.com>: > Le 26/02/2012 18:46, Philipp Gassmann a écrit : > > Am 02/26/2012 04:06 PM, schrieb frederik.nn...@gmail.com: > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 15:50, Philipp Gassmann <phi...@phiphi.ch> wrote: >> >> Am 02/26/2012 02:21 PM, schrieb Mark Shuttleworth: >> > On 26/02/12 11:50, Gabriel Pettier wrote: >> >> I think beeing able to put 4 windows side by side would be great (or >> >> two with ¼/¾ widths), vertical spliting is less used but a top/bottom >> >> split is sometime useful. Too much would makes it hard to use, so i >> >> think a 4×2 grid would be nice. >> > >> > Quartering would be a 2x2 grid, not 4x2. >> > >> The compiz plugin that is currently still active but in part disabled >> allows finer tiling by repeatedly pressing Ctrl+Alt+[Numpad-Key] e.g. >> [9] for upper right corner. >> So you could tile up to 6 windows with flexible width. >> >> The middle row doesn't work currently, which would be vertically >> maximised windows (5 being maximising or narrow centered) > > > Are you sure this is correct? > Repeatedly pressing e.g. [CTRL] [ALT] [NUM4] e.g. kept resizing the window > within a pseudo maximized-to-left-edge state. > There was no keyboard-only way of tiling another slice next to it. Same goes > for vertical stacking. So this means with the keyboard-only interface there > was no way of tiling more than 4 windows at a time, except when resizing > them in a way that would enable one single [CTRL] [ALT] [NUM5] > narrow-resized window tiled to the screen center, which would occupy the > entire vertical space from touching the panel on the top edge down to the > bottom of the screen. > > I don't recall at any time having had the possiblity of neatly tiling 6 > windows onto the screen in a keyboard-only way. > > "Flexible width" is one way of saying it. It would have been a thousand > times easier to simply resize windows manually within a sensible grid - the > mouse way.. > > see screenshot: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57588162/Bildschirmfoto%20am%202012-02-26%2018%3A41%3A28.png > Flexibility is very limited. just the width is variable without moving > manually. > > > > Yeah this didn't actually allow 4 collumns, just 3 with ¼½¼ or ⅓⅔⅓, but > still, it was quite useful -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
