A new managing paradigm

[dmb2]

Since mahogany is our chance to redefine how windows are managed, I've been thinking about how to do this in a novel way.

Instead of imagining discrete desktops, I imagine the entire 2D plane as a place to contain windows. Multimonitor support (when standardized) would simply extend the visible parts of the plane.

Within this plane, a bounding box the resolution of the monitor would become the root frame. The two structures are the window and a frame. Frames are definable with the following ui:

• Keybindings from stumpwm
• ctrl-click to split horizontal, ctrl-shift click to split vertical. Split occurs at mouse position
• mouse can drag and resize any part of the frame, 2D resize if the click occurs at a frame corner

Windows can be snapped into frames, or they can float.

See https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/aquasnap
See https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/tidytabs

In this paradigm, a new group would simply mean panning the desktop to a new part of the plane that doesn't have windows in it. If groups moved vertically or horizontally, windows could exist between groups. Moving windows between groups would be a matter of calculating their new root frame, or their new coordinates if floating.

[sdilts]

I like the mouse control ideas. I was thinking about implementing grouping floating windows like shown on this gif from the website: https://www.nurgo-software.com/images/AquaSnap/GroupMove.gif, except grouping the windows into squares, not arbitrary shapes as shown.

[bijang]

Very interesting paradigm ! Never seen this before...

Stupid question maybe but are you planning there be a default dynamic tiling option as well as a manual tiling paradigm?

[bijang]

I hate to ask this question, is this project still active?(I'm sure it is... apologies for question, I just looking fwd to it ;) )

[sdilts]

It's still alive, yes. Active? Maybe. I haven't abandoned it yet. Since it's summer where I live, I'm devoting all of my free time to spending it outside. I plan to resume working on it in earnest at some point in the future. Thanks for your excitement, it's a real motivator.

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[bijang]

I'm devoting all of my free time to spending it outside

you're doing the best thing then!

Loads of excitement for sure but happy seeing how things unfold at whatever pace :) slower the better probably

[szos]

I commented in another issue, before reading this one and realizing my comment/idea would fit better here, as it involves changing the way groups are handled and would fit well with the idea of a single plane with groups being treated as viewports. The comment/idea is in issue #10 here: #10 (comment)