window management ideas

[Alexander Shenoy]

I like this idea. It actually solves a problem that I have been having
forever. Opening a window on the wrong desktop and then having to move it to
another desktop. Or wishing I could have a window open only on two desktops,
but not the other two. (i.e. Konsole open on "Programming" and
"Virtualization," but not "Multimedia" and "General")
Tags would make things simple for the Window Management. The algorithm would
have to be really good at weeding out superfluous tags, however. I could
easily see adding a tag and having only one window open within it. Maybe
have a Universal tag that displays windows within all Tags? It would just
need to be designed in such a way that it doesn't turn into a kludge.

I also like the idea of the desktop effect grouping the applications. I have
this animation that I'm seeing through my minds eye and its really stellar.

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Alexander Shenoy
Student
University of Pittsburgh

four.sentenc.es


On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Chani <chanika at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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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