Re: Why are windows placed in columns?

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

I agree with all of those points, and if you can port the
NaturalWindowLayout thing from KDE (I started porting the Kompose one
before I figured out it was useless) and get it working, that would be
wonderful!

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Florian Kuhnt <florian kuhnt gmx de> wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 18.03.2011, 14:10 -0400 schrieb Jasper St. Pierre:
>> It was initially implemented that way because it was easier to do, and
>> this workspace logic goes back to when the shell looked like:
>> http://owtaylor.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/gnome-shell-20090209.png
>
> I remember that! And I didn't like it either. ;-) (I think it was the
> time were I wrote the first entry on the bug)
>
>
> Problems (in my opinion - am I wrong?):
>
> 1) Narrow Windows consume too much space.
> In the top-right workspace the narrow bottom-right window consumes more
> space than necessary.
>
> 2) Windows' relative size is not recognizable.
> In the top-right workspace the bottom-left window seems to have the same
> size like the two other similar looking windows - but, in fact, is much
> smaller (see titlebar).
>
> 3) Grid makes Windows' positions less informative.
> This is best seen if you place a window on the bottom-left and another
> one on the top-right of a workspace (maybe overlapping) and compare the
> patched behaviour with the currently implemented.
>
>
> So far.
>
>  Florian
>
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> Florian Kuhnt <florian kuhnt gmx de>
>
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