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List:       kwin
Subject:    The future of tiling? [WAS: remove Tiling specific "switch focus" shortcuts]
From:       Mathias Gottschlag <mgottschlag () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-04-01 23:19:20
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(Sorry for not sending a "proper" reply, just subscribed to the list.)

I am one of those users who have used a tiling wm some time ago before 
switching to KDE again. And even though I indeed prefer the tiling window 
management system a lot, I did not switch back because of what I would indeed 
lose. For example, plasma-desktop is unusable with awesome (and probably with 
other WMs as well), and I do not want to miss the features plasma (and other 
parts of KDE connected to it) provides me.

Martin Graesslin wrote:
> So in the current state I only see two possible long term solutions, either 
> making it really good or drop it. Given problem number one I don't see how
> we should make it good.

> Now what has it to do with scripting? Well scripting could be a nice
> solution to keep the current state of a tech demo. It would be more clear
> that it is only an addition and that KWin does not want to be a tiling
> window manager (no competition to awesome). Furthermore it would be the
> proof of concept for the JavaScript bindings. But still: who's going to
> implement it?

I would love to see "proper" tiling in kwin, and as I discovered the thread on 
the mailing list, I was just compiling an initial KDE checkout as I wanted to 
look into tiling and multiple screens. However I have never worked with such a 
large unknown codebase. I'd definately need a helping hand, someone who would 
explain some basics to me as soon as I decide to start working on this.

About scripting in KWin: Is there any documentation about this? What classes 
are exported, and where? A tiling extension would probably need to completely 
override some functionality related to window placement, is this possible from 
scripts?

Mathias Gottschlag


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