On cascading windows

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, James W Dow wrote:
> Why not cascade windows diagonally from top right to bottom left. This would

Doesn't this suffer from the same problem that windows can (end up) hidden 
behind others? If you have click-raise then a large window is going to 
cover up smaller ones *anyway* on use. The existing top-left to 
bottom-right cascade leaves all the title bars visible, so you can reach 
all your windows again - that's the whole point.

If you have windows maximized to the vertical height of your screen, then 
top-right to bottom-left cascades will leave little exposed except the 
"close" button (in default plastik style and window decorations, at 
least), which isn't a nice thing either.

All in all, *I* don't think it's a grand idea, but it might be useful for 
others (yourself, for instance). The best thing to do then is to file a 
wishlist item on bugs.kde.org against .. um .. kdesktop. Or kwin. I can't 
decide which is responsible.

[ade]