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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 17:18 +0100, zekopeko wrote:

> >
> 
> I suggest you look at Divvy[1]. Looks like a really nice way of
> marrying a tilling manager to a non-tilling manager.

thanks!
divvy is cool, we had that before in a months old Ayatana thread iirc,
and i think i liked it already for its inspirational power back then ;)

> If it was up to me I would copy Aero Snap when dragging to the edge

Aero Snap features are already outdated, when you get to check Compiz
Grid plugin in Natty, try it!

> 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.

Why clone if you can understand, abstract, learn, do it better?
What is the main functionality of divvy? Painless window resizing to a
grid.

Now lets just enable a grid by default, snapping windows to it
automatically upon resize, move and perhaps also upon scale. To override
the snap-to-grid, just enable a modifier such as ALT or CTRL or SUPER,
which would actually make a good metaphor for "float", since "super" is
the latin word for over/above.

Wouldn't that be sufficiently innovative and useful to justify *not*
cloning other stuff ("taillight syndrome")?

There was another thread about the Window Picker (Compiz Scale) being
initiated if you click on a launcher, even when it has only one window.
Why not rotate three functions on the launchers:
* raise & focus
* spread exposé
* tile for dual-pane mode, as i mocked up above.

if you're interested, i can scheme up how i imagine the "tile for
dual-pane mode" scenario in detail.. but i think the dual pane thing is
for the other thread (tiling and floating WM)