Summary: | Allow disabling quadrants for quick tiling at screen edges | ||
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Product: | [Plasma] kwin | Reporter: | Marcus U <unclemarcus91> |
Component: | Quick Tiling | Assignee: | KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null> |
Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
Severity: | wishlist | CC: | oldie |
Priority: | NOR | Flags: | thomas.luebking:
ReviewRequest+
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Version: | 4.8.5 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Fedora RPMs | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Marcus U
2012-09-16 05:31:55 UTC
I'm sorry but there won't be an option for that. When the feature got introduced we decided against a config option for the following reasons: * it would make the code much more complex and more likely to contain bugs * having a good configuration interface for this is hardly possible * the feature itself is not damaging or anything. It is easy to revert the action and get the wished behavior What will happen for most likely 4.10 is a reduction to 10 % for the quadrants which has been suggested by a usability expert. I can understand not having the option due to code complexity, but I think either changing over to "half-tiling" (abandoning "quarter-tiling" altogether) or performing "quarter-tiling" only at the very corners (at least for the two top corners) would both be better solutions. Based on my observations, most commonly people are already working in a maximized application when they tile it (because they needed to bring another window in view as well), and what happens is they grab the title bar and slam it to either side with generally little vertical movement, so when the pointer reaches either side it's going to be fairly close to the top (easily within the top 10% span of the side as far as I can tell by eye), which would still cause the window to be unintentionally "quarter-tiled". While the feature is not "damaging" as such, it is a minor frustration that makes the environment feel ever so slightly unpolished. I very rarely need more than two windows side-by-side (even that is fairly uncommon) and can't think of many scenarios where this would be desirable, is there a real benefit in staying with/demand for quadrant-based tiling? I've personally never seen KDE users in action (other than myself) so I really don't know how heavily this feature is used compared to just plain "half-tiling". If you have never seen KDE users using the system you should not do any claims about how people use the system ;-) There are of course real use cases for the quad windows, I for example use it quite often for e.g. chat windows I didn't, I was asking how useful people find this feature... of course, if enough people make use of it, I wouldn't support removing it. It's just that based on how I've seen people use other systems (and how I personally use KDE) quadrant-based tiling (at least currently) gets more in the way than it helps. I'll just wait until 4.10 to see how it works out, though even 10% seems a bit high to me. *** Bug 307214 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Before there arises a second discussion: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106509/ Martin and I agreed that the option is completely misplaced in that kcm anyway and moving it to the "moving" part of "kcmshell4 kwinoptions" would resolve the GUI worries. That does not mean that the patch will be added or even to the 4.9 release cycle, just that so far nothing is set in stone regarding this item. It is a pity that you cannot just drag the window to the side to have it half screen size and just the corners for the quarters but, Markus M, I have positioned the desktop toolbox button in a way that it marks the beginning of the area needed to get half sized windows. So I don't need to try, I just have to drag the window to the toolbox. Maybe that helps you too. FTR: at least 4.11 has the corner ratio exposed to the GUI (ie. you can configure that only a very tiny fraction of the edge shall cause the quarter tiling) |