Re: Window Resizing in GNOME Shell

[William Jon McCann <william jon mccann gmail com>]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Jud Craft <craftjml gmail com> wrote:
>> Rather than just copying off Windows 7, why not come up with something else?
>> How about there are two (or more) windows.  Clicking (dragging?) on the side
>> of one window makes it instantly scale to the next window, or if no window
>> is present, the edge of the screen.  This way a user could easily have 3 or
>> more documents side by side, or even do 2 but tiled vertically.
>
> On the other hand, there's no need to come up with a special "gimmick"
> that does the same thing.
>
> Just make an easy way to simply arrange windows.  If it involves
> "dragging to the left/right side", so be it.

Right.  I really like the simplicity of the Windows 7 approach.  If we
believe the research data that they have published I think they made a
smart choice.  See
http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/10/01/user-interface-managing-windows-windows.aspx
(Real World Usage section).

Side-by-side comparison was definitely the sweet spot.

However, we may be able to have more advanced features to tile the top
N windows in the stack or something.  Not sure.

Jon