This might be what I was looking for all along in a window manager. For the longest time, I've been dissatisfied with the drawbacks of both floating and tiling WMs, but hopefully this can deliver the best of both worlds.
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Yeah some windows are meant for floating and some are meant for tiling, nothing can really get around that. It would definitely be cool to take more steps in identifying which is which and having that be their default behavior.
If I understand what you mean this is a solved problem.
As instance in bspwm I just wrote this line in the config then all images opens as a floating window.
bspc rule -a Sxiv state=floating
I guess many other tiling WM are able to do that.
That's something you have to set up manually, it's not default behavior right?
Its not default behaviour, some people may not want images to be displayed like that. You can apply rules on any application.
This sounds really cool. The window "optimum size" they're talking about sounds a lot like what macOS does with its Zoom feature, where when you double click the titlebar of an app it resizes to the app's content size (as opposed to maximizing), which is something I'd really like to see on Linux.
If this is implemented I'll definitely try Gnome as daily driver for a while. :P
Sounds fascinating, can't wait to see it in action.
This is very interesting and innovative. I'm eager to see how it works in practice.
more recently, tiling.
The author seems to have a different definition of "recently" than I do (have been using tiling window managers for over 2 decades now).
If a window wants to be maximized, instead of fitting in a tile, it will move to its own workspace.
So pretty much "out of the users view", which seems to be one of the main things they're complaining about.
Overall just reads like a shitty mash of tiling and non tiling concepts, which you already can get better on a modern dynamic tiling window manager.
This is an exciting time for gnome. If they can actually make it work well for the user it can be great but I doubt that'll happen at first. We'll have to wait and see tho. I'm more excited for gnome mobile, even tho I'm not using a Linux phone (yet) I have a tablet with phosh and I'd love to use gnome on it instead especially after I saw the demo videos