Bug 483759

Summary:	Add ability to put a window in a portion of a tiling layout zone by placement Top/Bottom 25%
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Jonathan Isom <jeisom>
Component:	Custom Tiling	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	hey, mobile.harvey, nate, notmart
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	qt6
Version First Reported In:	6.0.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466057
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Jonathan Isom 2024-03-16 13:07:42 UTC

SUMMARY
When not using the custom tiling feature if I drag to a side and either the top or bottom 25% it will do a quarter of the screen.  I would like the ability when I move a window using the tiling modifier into the top or bottom 25% of a zone to use the top or bottom half of that zone.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0
Qt Version: 6.6.2
Kernel Version: 6.7.10-273-tkg-linux-tkg (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 24 × AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor
Memory: 62.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080/PCIe/SSE2
Product Name: X570M Pro4

Comment 1 Nick 2024-03-23 10:00:23 UTC

Hi - I'm a little unclear about this request. Would it be possible to provide a little more detail so the feature request is really clear? Thanks, Nick

Comment 2 Jonathan Isom 2024-03-23 10:47:43 UTC

(In reply to Nick from comment #1)
> Hi - I'm a little unclear about this request. Would it be possible to
> provide a little more detail so the feature request is really clear? Thanks,
> Nick

If looking at the default tiling layout, 3 zones in a 1x3 layout, currently when moving a window into one of the zones the window will fill that zone.  My suggestion is that if a window is dragged to either the upper 25% or lower 25% of a zone it would fill only that half, creating 2 sub-zones each. With the 3 zones in the default it would effectively allow 6 windows, 3 top and 3 bottom in a 2x3 layout, to be tiled onscreen without having to subdivide the zones in the template editor ahead of time.  This would add additional flexibility to the tiling system and apply only temporarily until the window(s) are moved out. 

Currently if I wanted to do this I'd have to go to the tiling layout editor, split the zone vertically, use the layout for ever how long that is, then undo the split when I am done.

Hope that is clearer.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2024-08-22 13:53:47 UTC

Kind of the opposite of Bug 464611. IMO neither really make sense as they propose violating the semantics of how custom tiling works. In both cases you should just modify the tile layout to accommodate what you want.

I think the underlying issue is that modifying the layout feels slow. Bug 466057 proposes addressing that, and if implemented, I think it would be usable for the use cases you have in mind here.