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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 19:31 +0800, Sam Spilsbury wrote: 
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 4:43 AM, frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx
> <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Remco,
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 13:50, Remco <remco47@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 07:16, cmaglothin <cmaglothin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > I agree. The only reason I ever boot into Windows is that I have to
> >> > annotate
> >> > movies for a class, and Snap makes it very easy to do with just two
> >> > clicks.
> >> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:34 PM, David Hamm <davidthamm@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> in fact i'd say it almost a upgrade deciding factor for vista to 7
> >>
> >> You'll like Compiz Grid. I think Frederik's idea is simply a mouse
> >> interface to Compiz Grid.
> >
> > yeah, essentially, i would love to see stuff snapping to an invisible grid.
> > This could then be disabled by holding a modifier key such as [ALT].
> > By default, snap to grid should be enabled for:
> > * moving windows
> > * resizing windows
> > * scaling windows
> > i also suggest strongly to consider window controls as nothing else than
> > what the name suggests:
> > controls for the window at hand.
> > often, we are confronted with the question whether or not closing a window
> > will quit the app contained in it.
> > This is poor design, i mean, window controls are not well designed, if they
> > affect the service instead of only the window.
> > Now about Compiz Grid.. it's remarkable, the windows7 thingy is fully
> > implemented and of course completely configurable to the corner and pixel ;)
> > i jast had an easy time splitting my screen in two halves.. took me 2
> > click-drag-releases.
> > Thanks to whoever did that in Compiz!
> 
> It was scott :) He's a dude.

thank you, Scott!

> 
> Apologies to hijack this thread - I have already got a sample
> implementation of implementing a resize grip area set by the theme
> which is larger than the borders and it vastly resolves the precision
> problem. It requires a patched metacity though

now.. how would we do that then?
now that compiz grid is all pretty like that, i can't wait to get my
hands on some physical object resistance.. so i can use the border of
one grid-placed window to bump against and push the border of another
window.. i'd need proper resize handles for that first. I for one am
interested in checkin thiz out!

i thought maximumize would be able to help with that, but i think that's
a different process.. looks to me more like a  new feature.
In bluetile (thanks OmegaYear), adjacent gridded windows share 1 border,
so if you move it, you resize both windows at the same time.

I think this might deserve some consideration, too.