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

[Domen Vrankar <domen vrankar gmail com>]

I like the way that this is done in Blender ( splitting/merging window area ). I've added a movie on how it looks on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuv5TO5BE-Q . I guess that this could also work great for gnome-shell whit a small difference that every time you would split an area you would get a menu ( similar to the ALT-TAB ) and there you would select the window, that you want to have in that area.

This window management wouldn't have the functionality of resizing
windows - the windows themselves would be the splitting boxes.

Still there are two things that I dislike about the blender way. The first is that you have to be on the thin border of the window to split it. This would have to be made easier -> make borders around windows wider while in this mode or have a button that temporarily widens the lines between the windows. The second one is that the split/merge options menu that opens is too small - that two options would have to be larger ( like ALT-TAB menu ).

The second dislike solution could also be extended so that if you for e.g. hold CTRL pressed it means that you want to split and if you hold ALT pressed means that you want to merge ( another speed gain + you still have the menu option for the users that don't want to use button shortcuts option ).

I guess that it would also be good to have a method to quickly switch between the currently used "resize and move the window wherever you like" and the technique described above and a few default window layouts buttons (  for e.g. two windows side by side, three windows - the bottom two side by side and the last one on top of them ).

regards, Domen

2009/11/21 Bob Hazard <linuxoflondon googlemail com>

There has been a discussion recently in the Ubuntu forums about a way
to trigger this 50/50% view in Compiz using wmctrl.  It seems to even
cope with dual monitors and change of resolution.

It is summarised here in a tutorial
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/11/aero-snap-ubuntu-linux.html


I don't know if wmctrl would have any effect on mutter.


2009/11/21 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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