Dynamic tiling features for kwin

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Wed Sep 1 11:47:12 BST 2021


On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 12:38 PM Mikhail Zolotukhin <mail at genda.life> wrote:
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> Hi,
> You have to use KWin Script for that. For example Krohnkite.
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> However, Krohnkite is not maintained for a year as far as I know, to I decided to create a fork, that is focused on being more user-friendly and more developer-friendly by providing developer documentation, unit-tests, CI/CD pipelines and being maintained not just by one person in the future. But please note, that I just started to work on it just a couple of days ago and my time is limited, the current state of the fork is "It does not work, but heavy in development".
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> I would like if you can land a developer's hand. If you are interested, you can of course contribute and ask questions on GitHub. Also, please note, that it is not an official KDE project, but I really want it to be in the future if it succeeds.
>
> Cheers,
> Mikhail
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Tuesday, August 31st, 2021 at 23:23, Stoica Liviu <stoica.liviu97 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
>
> I have been using plasma for a while now and I am very pleased with the experience so far. But I am struggeling with window management...
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> I was wondering if i could make kwin tile windows like any other dynamic window manager.
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>
> My question being, are there any efforts in this direction?
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> If so, can I land a hand?
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> If not, can I start it? Or is dynamic tiling something that is not needed/wanted for kwin?
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> Thank you for your time.
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>
> Best Regards,
>
> Liviu Stoica

Hi Mikhail,
It's very encouraging to see you working on such a tiling extension!
It's clear to me that our users want such features.

Something that we've been asked more and more is also screen splitting
for the phone, which could use similar infrastructure but a slightly
different behaviour since yours seems mainly based on keyboard
interaction.
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-phone-components/-/issues/46

Good luck!
Aleix


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