Re: Tiling features in Mutter

[Oliver Mangold <o mangold googlemail com>]

On 15.03.2011 11:41, Olav Vitters wrote:
> No idea if feasible, but maybe work on exposing it in javascript, so the
> tiling features can live in an extension? Then everyone wanting to use
> tiling could have it easily (no need to compile / differ from what is in
> the distro)
>
> Note: not a dev, no idea if above makes sense :)
Would guess, the amount of changes necessary to the files in master 
would be about the same. Making it a plugin could be an idea. The 
advantage would be to have to change mutter just once to add the 
interface, then the rest can be done separately. The disadvantage could 
be that it just becomes 'yet another useless layer'. I'm reluctant, 
though, to do it in Javascript. Could be some low-level gtk/gdk features 
are needed which are not exposed to scripting languages. Adding tabbing 
seems to require serious messing with the window frames (I'm trying 
right now, and found it's not so easy to teach the frame that something 
might be in between the frame and the client window). Or maybe for the 
fans of graphical gimmicks maybe adding compositor effects for tiling 
could be nice. Then access to the compositor would also have to be 
exposed to scripts. I guess the tabber-tiler should at least have direct 
access to the address space of mutter and the objects within.