Re: feature request: grouping two tiled windows

[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr>]

Le mardi 07 juin 2011 à 17:33 -0700, Lewis Chung a écrit :
> Using alt+tab and the activities overview makes sense to me. However,
> when I tile two windows next to each other, for example, evince and
> libreoffice writer, and I switch to firefox, I expect to be able to
> switch back to evince and libreoffice with a single activities toggle
> (used to be able to do this by minimizing firefox, but cannot anymore
> based on gnome-shell's defaults)
> 
> Right now I have to alt+tab to focus both of the windows to bring them
> to the front. 
That indeed makes much sense to me, I've already be bitten by this.

> I was wondering if an extension some additional functionality could be
> developed to allow me to open the activities overview and drag a
> window on-top of another (grouping them), so that when I use overview,
> I can click on the group to bring both to the front. Other methods of
> grouping the windows together could work too, I just want to be able
> to group two windows together so they can both be brought into focus
> at the same time.
I think this feature might even go into the core design instead of into
an extension: that's the optimal behavior for all users. I'd suggest you
ping the designers on #gnome-shell list (ask for mccann, aday or jimmac)
to see what they think, and file a bug if they are OK. (I'll try to ask
them too if I'm around at the right hours.)


Regards