Just for inspiration: I once saw a tiling manager for OSX
(unfortunately i don't remember the name) which placed a button -
opening a small tinling menu similar to gtile - on the opposite side
of the Min,Max,Close Buttons, like this:
Am 16.02.2012 01:52, schrieb Paweł Kubik:
I'm sure that most of you have already seen some kind
of IDE like Anjuta or Eclipse, but maybe it's also featured by
other applications. The basic concept is that we have one main
window and few other which can be placed on the edges of the first
one. That concept is being used for years. We can say that it's
"must have" for programming environment. It's simply very
practical and easy to use. If we have trusted solution why don't
implement it in the desktop?
Some time ago I wanted to tweak my Fedora with some commands from
the web. I moved the terminal to the right edge and browser to the
left to make them both fill half of the screen. The browser
required quite more space so I had to resize two windows one after
another. It would be much easier if I could resize both of them in
the same time. There is no need to uncover my desktop.
Or another example. You are operating on in few window. Moving,
copying, deleting. You need three windows opened in the same time
and terminal (let's say that you have to change some permissions
for example). You drag each of them to edge of the screen and it's
done.
I don't have to write how useful would it be for GIMP users.
Let's combine it with dock hiding feature. I can imagine how many
other improvements could be made basing on this one. For example
you have nautilus hidden on the edge. You select some text or an
image and drag it into a folder in the file manager to save it in
proper format (it doesn't work like this right now, but we could
do something about it). Imagine how easy would it be to collect
resources for any kind of work?
That would greatly increase usability of Gnome, wouldn't it?
It's very good idea, however we could make it easier. What would you say for Blender like space management?
You can click on that "+" in circle in the upper right corner of the 3d view, and drag it left or down to add new wiev horizontally or vertically. To remove view you simply need to drag border of specific view until it completely disaprears. Let's imagine that you have desktop divided to views that way and you have one maximised window in any of them. It would provide much easier and more flexible desktop management than tilling.
