Re:Tiling features in Mutter

[Peder Rindal <peder refsnes gmail com>]

On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 20:10 +0100, Oliver Mangold wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after a lot of checking I decided to continue on this for now by adding 
> to tabbing/tiling features to the mutter source itself instead of as a 
> gnome-shell plugin. Main reason for the decision is that I want to have 
> tabbing. And for this a lot of extensions would have to added to mutter 
> to do it from outside. I try to isolate my additions from the mainline 
> mutter as far as possible. Design goal is to make it easy to separate is 
> mainline mutter and what are tabbing/tiling additions. I hope with time 
> it will become clear what are the minimal additions necessary to the 
> mutter base. Than can be sorted out which parts we should aim to get 
> into mainline.

I've been following the back and forth between you guys regarding if
this should be done as an extension or not. Being new to gnome-devel and
quite unfamiliar with the design I have no opinion which of the two is
the approach. Either way, I'd really love to see this implemented.

> As said, any help with the project is still welcome. 
Seeing as I don't know which approach is best, might as well learn by
doing and give you a hand, Oliver.

> What needs to be 
> done for now is:
> - adding some more keybinds for convenience, e.g. to change the order of 
> the windows in the same tile or to cycle through the untiled windows
> - changing the referencing concept (the tilings should reference the 
> windows instead of the other way round). this makes sorting windows 
> easier and is less intusive to mainline code
> - adding save/restore tiling layout from/to config. I would like to get 
> my tilings back after login/logout (maybe it is even possible to restore 
> the windows in the original tiles).
> - getting started with tabbing (this means figuring out how to add this 
> to the frame)
> - and of course testing and bugfixing
> 
> If anyone would like to do any of this, that would be great. Send me a 
> mail, I probably can help you getting started.
> Best,
> 
> Oliver

Some pointers on where to start would be very helpful. Hopefully, I'll
have some time to get started this weekend at the latest.

Regards,
Peder