Re: feature request: grouping two tiled windows

[Cyril Arnaud <cyril arnaud gmail com>]

I guess that using workspaces will work pretty well. You can move from workspaces to workspaces using either the overview or the Ctrl+Alt+up or down.
Each workspace can then be used to group multiple sets of applications together for improved productivity

-Cyril

On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 12:38 -0700, Lewis Chung wrote:
>     That does work, unfortunately only for the single use case that I only have one 'grouping' of tiled windows. With how applications are laid out now and my laptops 16:9 screen, it makes sense to tile/'group' a multiple sets of applications together for improved productivity. In the case that I have multiple 'groups', is there any other known way to switch easily between them?
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>     -Lewis
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>     On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Cyril Arnaud <cyril arnaud gmail com> wrote:
> >         Have you tried a middle clic on the window top bar ?
> >         It will bring this window below the others, and you'll see your tile windows.
> >         
> >         -Cyril
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> >         
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> >         On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 11:05 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> >     
> > > 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
> > >
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>     Lewis Chung
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