Re: Tiling features in Mutter

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 13:05 +0100, Oliver Mangold wrote:
> On 15.03.2011 12:50, Tim Cuthbertson wrote:
> > That's true - it should be a lot easier to distribute as a javascript
> > extension. Oliver, have you asked the mutter developers whether they'd
> > be open to merging tiling features? Can anyone on this list answer
> > that?
> Not explicitly, but I started this thread in hope to get some comments 
> from them :)

The main constraints is that any code additions can't make it
significantly harder to understand and maintain the core positioning
code - the constraint and positioning logic is pretty complex and I
don't want to spend a lot of time fighting regressions.

But other than that I'm quite open to adding hooks in Mutter. I think
hooks that a shell extension can use are likely more interesting than
complete behaviors that a user would turn on with a GConf key.

Probably the hardest thing that would need to be addressed is a way
for shell extensions to add new global keybindings.

- Owen