On 14-01-17 14:38, Tom Hacohen wrote: > Hey guys, > > I've been writing a new tiling module for enlightenment, which I think > is an improvement over the current one. I've based it on the current > tiling module (thanks a lot billiob!), but redesigned some of the > internals and the behaviour. I like the result and would like to share > it here and see what you guys think. > > TL;DR: It's e19 based, get it from the devs/tasn/e19_tiling2 branch on > enlightenment.git > > I currently use it, so it's stable enough for that, but there might > still be bugs. It's e19 so you need latest elementary and watch out for > all of the things you need to watch out for if you are upgrading from e18. > > So what does the module do? > It's a tree-based tiling module, which means you can tile whatever and > wherever. When you create a window, it splits the currently focused > window according to the tile mode (can be toggled via key bindings). So > for example: > 'O' will become '8' if you split vertically and 'OO' if you split > horizontally. > > You can also swap windows using key bindings. Swapping is directional, > so you can only swap windows that share a border with the key bindings > (might add another swap mode in the future). > > You can also toggle a window's floating state (either from the border > menu or a key binding) which will make a window float over the tiled > windows (behave like e would normally treat a window). > > It shares the config with the tiling v1.0 module which is probably a bad > thing, but just makes it easier for new people to start using it. While > tiling v2.0 can load tiling v1.0 config, making changes might reset some > of the v1.0 config values when you switch back (hopefully never). > > Please let me know if you encounter any issues or have any suggestions. > > Many thanks to billiob for writing Tiling v1.0 and zmike for e related > advice. > > What doesn't work: > * Everything is not centred when using "don't show window borders" mode > (thanks to cippp for reporting). > * Live loading of the module - You'd have to recreate the windows for > the tiling module to "catch them". (Should be easy to fix, will fix soon). > * E restarts: the windows will be re-tiled :( and sometimes wouldn't be > "caught". The former issue is annoying to fix, the latter is easy and > will be fixed along with the live loading issue. > * You can't "live change" the "show border" option. You'd need to > recreate the windows (super easy to fix, will do soon). > * Moving a window from an untiled desktop to a tiled desktop doesn't > work. You'd need to disable/enable floating in order to refresh it (easy > to fix, found out while writing this email). > * Some resizing cases have visual artefacts that solve themselves when > resizing ends. > * Minimum/maximum size of windows is ignored. - I don't know what's the > best way to handle that. Awesome just closes the window if it can't fit > it, I just ignore it. I could potentially make it floating if I can't > fit it, but I'd rather just ignore the size hints. Ideas are welcome. > * Code clean-ups and log clean-ups. Both are a mess as I was hacking > while learning the code.
I like the way this new tiling module goes. However I have few concerns: • it is not on par (yet) with the original module feature-wise, • lacks a bit of stability, but that might also be related to e19 itself. The main feature I miss is to reorganize the screen by moving tiled windows around (using the "move windows" under the tiling section in key bindings). It is shown on the video on http://billiob.net/blog/20110717_etiling.html . For example I need to be able to do the following: • from "8", move the upper window to the left (or right) to have "OO"; • from "O8", move the lower window of 8 to the right to have "OOO"; • from "OO8", move the upper window of 8 the the left twice to have "8OO"; • more complex, from "O8", move the lower window down to have it below the other 2 windows. I'm sure that new tiling can replace the current one pretty soon. Thank you Tom for working on it. -- Boris Faure Pointer Arithmetician
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