Bug 307214 - screen edges module: can't disable arranging in quarters when dragging window to the screen side
Summary: screen edges module: can't disable arranging in quarters when dragging window...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 306871
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 4.9.0
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
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Assignee: KWin default assignee
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Reported: 2012-09-22 14:23 UTC by Gernot Wieprecht
Modified: 2012-09-22 19:19 UTC (History)
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Description Gernot Wieprecht 2012-09-22 14:23:09 UTC
Please excuse that I don't know which module this is: I recently activated the option to arrange windows by dragging them to the side of the screen. This is very handy when I want to compare two files. But alas it is very hard to get the desired effect of two windows side by side, you have to hit an exact point on the screen side what I cannot do that precise. Therefore I end up most of the time with tiny windows a quarter the size of the screen. It would be very much easier if I could just drag the window to the screenside without the need to position it to get a window size of half the screen. Therefore I beg you to add a third option to the relevant module in systemsettings so that the user cannot only choose between maximize and tile but between maximize, divide and tile. If the user would choose to only enable the half size windows (divide) it shouldn't be relevant to which position on the screen size the user drags the window. 

In the KDE SC version I used before it was possible to drag the window just a little to the left/right after grabbing the title bar to get it half screen size. Now I have to drag the windows longer ways (which also means  hold the mouse button longer) and look for the point to drag to - all three things much more difficult for me than just grab the title bar and move it "blindly" an inch roughly straight into one direction.

Please forgive an old man to have such picky wishes but it really would make the handling of that feature much better for people like me (bad eyes, slight tremor, limited mobility and strengh of the hands - all that fine things you'll probably get sooner or later too). 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable arranging windows by dragging them to the screen edges.
2. Grab window titlebar at the end and drag it shortest way straight to the side of the screen. 
3. The window gets tiny, quarter of the screen, instead of half the screen.


Expected Results:  
The behaviour that dragging windows into corners and upper screen edges gives quarterly tiled windows should be optional. I can disable the fullscreen feature why not the tile feature - so that only half screen window dragging is left?
Comment 1 Thomas Lübking 2012-09-22 19:19:20 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 306871 ***