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Re: [Ayatana] Tiling and Floating window management in compiz (was: Put a resize widget in the title bar)
- To: Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Tiling and Floating window management in compiz (was: Put a resize widget in the title bar)
- From: zekopeko <zekopeko@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:21:18 +0100
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On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This should probably be in a new thread, so reposting
>
>
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> From: frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar
> To: Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ayatana List <ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>
> forgive me for sending 4 in a row on this thread..
> here's a mockup of what i think, attached.
> it's actually a screenshot, just imagine the possibilities!
> the resize grab handle would have to be touch-friendly
> perhaps big enough to host an animation on it on horizontal mouse
> drag, e.g. a spinning rim (themeable animation,like Wanda the Fish¹ :D
> )
> putting an animation on it that moves as the handle is dragged would
> be additional feedback on the human interface operation, such stuff
> "feels" good to touch.
> the mockup at hand portays a movie on the left and a nautilus window
> on the right.
> other possible combinations:
> * Word Processor on the left, web dictionary on the right.
> * hacking in Terminal on the left, looking at the outcome on the right
> * Lifera on the left, Facebook on the right
> * The Gimp on the left, $HOME/Pictures/Screenshots
> ...etc
> i can think of a zillion cool applications of having this possibility in Compiz.
> I just don't think it will be easy to design this, if you try to
> overlay floating and tiling WM concepts for > 2 "panes".
> ¹ http://www.fifi.org/doc/gnome-help-data/html/fish_applet/C/index.html
>
>
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> Sam Spilsbury
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Ok reposting in this thread since I missed it:
I suggest you look at Divvy[1]. Looks like a really nice way of
marrying a tilling manager to a non-tilling manager. If it was up to
me I would copy Aero Snap when dragging to the edge and would put a
windicator for Divvy-clone on the right in the title bar. Pressing the
button would produce a Divvy-widget allowing you to tile the window.
[1] http://www.mizage.com/divvy/