RE: Suggestion for better utilising screen space when using a workspace

[Mark Curtis <merkinman hotmail com>]

Yeah I brought this up the other day
"Window Resizing in GNOME Shell"
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2009-November/msg00057.html

I had a different idea, but agreed that it needs to be more than just the left/right like Windows 7

Also speaking of Windows I AM TERRIBLY SORRY IF HOTMAIL ADDS A TAG LINE FOR IT

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:13:51 +0800
From: bvanoudtshoorn gmail com
To: gnome-shell-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Suggestion for better utilising screen space when using a workspace

There's actually some really nice functionality in Windows 7 for managing this. If you pull a window over to the left-hand side of the monitor, it'll fill up the left half; if you pull it to the right, it'll fill up the right. It's simple and intuitive, and it may actually be something that Microsoft got right in 7.

(There are, of course, a few 'glitches' in the implementation in 7, such as a lack of good multiple-monitor support, which means that you can't use the right-hand side of your left-hand monitor and vice-versa.)

On 20/11/2009 10:39 PM, hansfbaier googlemail com wrote:

Hey all,
I find myself quite often resizing windows so I can read two, three or
sometimes even four windows all at once on a single workspace. It's always
quite a fiddly process and I would love to see gnome 3 / gnome-shell support
some sort of window management allowing me to better utilise
my screen-space. I don't know if this would fall under gnome-shell's remit
or not? I've heard windows 7 allows users to have a vertical separator, I
don't know if Mac has anything like this, if it does I've not seen it.

The issue:
Monitors tend to be getting bigger and wider, having a single
window/application occupying the full window is sometimes inefficient. I
think gnome needs some way of partitioning off your workspace. 

Another alternative may be constraint-solving tiling window management
like in xmonad or scwm.

Hans

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