window management ideas

[Chani]

so I had a crazy idea, and discussed it with lubos and notmart, and completely 
forgot to mention it at the bof. I brought it up again today and we ended up 
with some other ideas too.

what I wanted is window tagging. instead of virtual desktops and tabs (tabs 
seems to be a workaround for window management not being good enough 
anyways) I could just have tags on windows, and have a taskbar that groups by 
tag, or have one virtual desktop per tag. perhaps some smart omission of 
superfluous tags.

this could be done in stages: first the ability to manually tag, then session 
restore including tags, then virtual desktops automatically following tags 
(automatic creation and deletion of desktops would be nice, if done right), 
then magical automatic tagging from nepomuk (open a document, hte window gets 
the document's tags), perhaps other automatic tagging...

today I was told that wmii is a window manager that uses tags, so I need to go 
look into that.

we also daydreamed about how nice it would be if you could save and load 
partial-sessions consisting of a group of windows and an activity.


sebas had an idea for a new kwin effect to show all virtual desktops: instead 
of showing them as desktops, show them as groups of windows. as a side-effect 
this also avoids the issue of the taskbar showing the wrong stuff because the 
taskbar wouldn't be visible ;) he also wanted the ability to drag&drop windows 
between desktops from such effects.


in hte short term, I think we should add some simple features to make the 
current virtual-desktop management more convenient:
-an "add virtual desktop" action in the pager contextmenu
-maybe a way to add/remove them from the desktop grid effect? (yes, I'm 
thinking about gnome here)
-errr... I really should've written notes, because i forgot the rest. :)

comments?

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