GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 62721
allow panel to either cascade or H/V tile open windows
Last modified: 2018-01-24 13:11:34 UTC
Package: gnome-core Severity: normal Version: 2.0 Synopsis: allow panel to either cascade or H/V tile open windows Bugzilla-Product: gnome-core Bugzilla-Component: panel Description: There needs to be a method of gettinging the the tasklist to be able to either cascade all open windows or Horozontal or Vertically tile all open windows. (Not sure if this is a window manager thing or a panel thing... but It would be more convient as a right click on the panel. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-10-20 15:36 ------- The original reporter (parrishmyers@yahoo.com) of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org. Reassigning to the default owner of the component, panel-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Reassigning to tasklist
What version of GNOME is this filed against?
I don't remember now, it was quite a while ago... but in the current gnome release still doesn't seem to have a way to arrange the on- screen windows with a right-click on the window-list / panel. I know this is a windows thing, but it is usefull.
By current, do you mean 2.0.x?
yes... I have garnome 0.13.0 installed on my Debian sid box.
Moving to gnome-panel
See also http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85523
Moving to the right component. Sorry for the spam.
Is this Enhancement still being considered ?
Created attachment 140572 [details] [review] First patch to add tile H/V to groups of windows A first patch to get the ball rolling. It does what it promise for metacity but will probably get in to trouble when showing all applications in the taskbar and running compiz. This will change when we get the new infrastructure around virtual desktop. With small changes (recursive found of windows) it will be useful together with bug #117249. Would like input of implementation and if the struts things is enough or not. Feedback from someone with xinerama would be great! Should we implement cascade as well? If so - how? Eg what size should the windows have, how to position them? (RTL!)
Created attachment 140573 [details] Pretty screenshot showing tile h/v
Window cascading from left to right would be better.
Windows is abandoning H/V tiling in favor of "Aero Snap", so I think THAT new method should be implemented instead.
Γριφεγ, well that's up the window managers to implement and I don't think that would hinder adding it to libwnck / gnome-panel. mac_v, I'm not sure what you mean by "cascading from left to right".
Excellent work. I just tested this in combination with bug 117249
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