Nice! I use i3 but I've always thought it would be great if it supported manipulating windows with the mouse as well. I don't use GNOME so this isn't for me but I like the idea.
Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME
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#102How does this handle multiple monitors? Isn't the default on gnome 3 still to only switch the primary monitor when switching workspaces?
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#103So it's not a shell but a theme?
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#104I've always wanted to try a tiling window system, but they just don't seem to gel with how I work at all. Rarely, if ever, do I want a window to take up some common percentage of the screen. My editor is ~100 columns, which will change depending on the font / font size. My terminal is all over the place. My browser is multiple widths, because I need to test responsiveness, or what fits in my current tab does not fit what's in my next tab.
Is there any sort of middle ground tiling solution for people like me?
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is it a horror show? It never bothered me
It's not, some people are just a little dramatic about it.
I wouldn't go as far as calling it a horror show, but do find it genuinely unpleasant to use. In a default configuration GNOME's task switcher seems to assume that there is only one window open for each application. Switching between multiple windows in the same application is rather inconvenient. The title bar stuffs in frequently accessed options then hides the menu bar under the hamburger icon. Those frequently used options are the ones I am least likely to access from the title bar since they are bound to hotkeys that are common to most programs.
For anyone who is accustomed to other metaphors, I'm not terribly surprised by the description horror show. Even as someone who is willing to adapt to change, many of the changes seem to be contrary to usability or efficiency.
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#106I really wish people would stop using "beautiful" as if it were an objective adjective.
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#107Nice! I use i3 but I've always thought it would be great if it supported manipulating windows with the mouse as well. I don't use GNOME so this isn't for me but I like the idea.
You can have floating windows with i3.
Try meta-shift-space, you will get a floating window that can be dragged and resized with the mouse.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's interesting. Microsoft agreed with this philosophy and fought tooth and nail against tabbing in browsers, opting instead that each browser tab be it's own window and accessible from the task bar. After all other browsers had switched, they were forced to introduce that in IE as well. The worst offender here is OSX. I still haven't figured out a good way to switch between multiple open windows of the same applica…
They were wrong. Emphatically. Ridiculously wrong. Remember for context that virtually nobody was using virtual desktops for windows as it not part of the UI unless you installed it and it sucked besides. Also remember most people's internet was very very slow. Screens were also not that big. Not that they are much bigger now with everyone using laptops. Grouping related windows in the task bar makes it frustrating t…
They weren't wrong, they just did an awful job of making it so individual apps wouldn't have to reinvent the wheel to get tabs. There's no reason browsers should have to implement it themselves or that other apps shouldn't be able to have the same semantics.
Ironically the pieces were there with MDI but that was also a bad implementation of the same semantic concept.
For whatever reason, only tiling wms like i3 have ever really delivered at all on the concept of making tabbing a universal thing.
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#109Am I the only one who thinks it's weird that there are no tests in the repo?
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's interesting. Microsoft agreed with this philosophy and fought tooth and nail against tabbing in browsers, opting instead that each browser tab be it's own window and accessible from the task bar. After all other browsers had switched, they were forced to introduce that in IE as well. The worst offender here is OSX. I still haven't figured out a good way to switch between multiple open windows of the same applica…
Just press Command-` to switch between windows of the same application. Command-Tab to switch between windows of other applications.
Note that on a US keyboard the ` (backtick) key is the one right below ESC.
If you have the keyboard in another locale (I use ES-intl) that hotkey doesn't make any sense at all: ` is next to "p" in my keyboard, and works only as a dead key. Cmd-` is literally impossible to use on it.
If you are in this situation, do yourself a favor and remap the "move focus to next window" hotkey [1]. It is very useful and I couldn't live without it now.
[1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/280220/how-to-chan...