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[Gabriel Pettier <gabriel.pettier@xxxxxxxxx>]

Le jeu. 23 févr. 2012 12:48:46 CET, gabriel pettier a écrit :
> Hi everybody
>
> First, i want to point I'm overall very very happy with Unity efforts, 
> and i speak out loud about it since Natty, it's a great thing, and it 
> helped increasing my productivity a lot, while getting me back to a 
> more "standard" desktop (was using wmii before, as gnome ergonomic 
> didn't feel productive at all).
> However, in Oneiric, something that I, and a lot of people that i know 
> use, have been broken, and as i understands it, the current intend is 
> not fix it, or provide an alternative solution, but to break it 
> further, for consistency, and i'm quite disappointed about it. As bug 
> reports and their numerous duplicates about this didn't lead to a fix, 
> i understand it's something which has to be discussed with the design 
> team, to find a solution that is both useful to proficient users, and 
> new users that shall not be confused.
> I'm talking about the resize cycling of windows when using 
> ctrl-alt-numpad. When unity went out, in Natty, using ctrl-alt-4 and 
> ctrl-alt-6, the first use would semi-maximize left or right, and any 
> consecutive press would change the size, not the position, of the 
> window, that allowed to quickly organize windows, without being forced 
> to the 50%/50% ratio. For me, it was a selling point.
> Oneiric broke it, with more than a few bug reports about it (#878820 
> #879218 #893017 and others, sometime wrongly marked as duplicate of 
> #876591 which is different and was fixed). Discussions in #878820 
> indicate that while the same behavior for 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 is still 
> working (albeit not nearly as often useful), the fix will be to break 
> them too.
> What I don't get is what is the problem with this behavior? What's the 
> rational to break it (although as i understand it, the break wasn't 
> intentional at first)? And, in the end, is there any way to either get 
> it back and adapt it to new keyboard shortcuts (as i understand there 
> is change to come on that front)?
> Please keep in mind that i appreciate your work, and just want the 
> awesomeness in unity to shine, not to disappear, i more than welcomed 
> the default activation of Tiling in unity, and the vast superiority 
> those keyboard shortcuts conveyed, to the equivalent features in 
> windows OS, and I'm just saddened this *killer feature* just 
> disappeared. (In fact, i was expecting improvement on the tiling 
> front, like stacking, moving a window from one screen to another in 
> dual screen and such, but hey, that could wait).
> Anyway, thanks for your time and your consideration. I really hope we 
> can find a solution to this issue.
I have a hard time beleving i'm the only one concerned about this here, 
some people are building vanilla compiz grid plugin  to get that 
behaviour back 
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz-plugins-main/+bug/878820 see #34). 
Nobody miss the grid size cycling here?