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Seasons Greetings, Sam ;)

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 19:21, Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > In bluetile (thanks OmegaYear), adjacent gridded windows share 1 border,
> > so if you move it, you resize both windows at the same time.
> >
>
> You mean like a tiling wm kind of thing?
>
> That would be kind of cool to implement. I had thought about the best
> way to do this, but it is tricky, I'd need to sit down and figure out
> the most natural way to combine a floating and tiling wm in this case.
> I've wanted to do it for some time, just, I have had no time to do it
> yet.


perhaps it would help to think of the desktop as *one large window to
content* here..
take e.g. totem and nautilus>'XDG_VIDEOS_DIR', side by side as a use case
for your design.
hope this helps..