FWIW I'm super happy with the soft tiling window manager approach
Windows 8 brought (and Win 10 augments, because you can now tile
within quadrants, not half-screens). I use this all the time,
especially from the keyboard - <win>-<left-arrow> / <right-arrow> tile
to the respective half-screens, <win>-<up-arrow> "promotes" a
half-screen to full-screen, <win>-<down-arrow> minimises, etc. It's
just a couple of key presses now to get two windows side-by-side.

I would be very happy if Squeak provided similar functionality
(without disagreeing with Chris's comments re gross/fine motor
movements).

frank

On 11 January 2016 at 21:39, Jakob Reschke <jakob.reschke at student.hpi.de> wrote:
> In Windows, I tend to like both maximizing a window when it is dragged
> to the top of the screen and tiling a window when dragged to the left
> or right edge of the screen. Not sure why I find the first one more
> intuitive than double clicking the title bar or the window decoration
> button for it. Maybe it's that gross motion thing Chris mentioned.
> Just today, I came to dislike once again that the tiling does not work
> on the inner edges in a dual screen setup. Though, it is possible that
> I would change my mind if it worked and it would trigger all the time.
> Anyway, it is achievable with Win-key+Left/Right.
>
> On the other hand, I am not so keen on maximizing a window in only one
> direction (vertically or horizontally) if I drag an edge of the window
> to the edge of the screen. Windows has that for the vertical
> direction.
>
> But I cannot remember the last time I wanted to maximize a
> SystemWindow in Squeak... usually I find screen space to be more
> precious (scarce?) here because there is no web browser or dedicated
> text editor window, but rather a plethora of smaller windows floating
> around, each of them preferably only one click away. And I like to
> spare a hole somewhere to access the world menu... Maybe these habits
> are also a result of the lack of an Alt+Tab or Exposé like feature by
> default.
>
> 2016-01-11 22:01 GMT+01:00 Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:
>> I wanted to comment that there's even more upsetting: the maximize feature
>> of windows 7 when dragging a window near display edge.
>> But as long as we can disable the preference, it's ok for me.
>>
>> 2016-01-11 20:20 GMT+01:00 Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Bernhard, please don't take this as offense but just as someone who's
>>> interested in UI design -- I'm curious what people find to like about
>>> this feature.  I myself was so disappointed when Ubuntu did this to
>>> Unity because being able to grab a window edge and slam the mouse to
>>> the edge of the screen is an easy gross-motor gesture that facilitates
>>> efficient window management; affording expansion in the desired
>>> dimensions, and no expansion where it isn't desired.  However, with
>>> this feature the user is now forced to "be careful" when dragging
>>> their window edges (don't get too close to the edge!) and so what was
>>> a gross-motor became a fine-motor AND their mind is distracted this
>>> having to wreste with the UI, because they want to make use of their
>>> screen real-estate but, at least in Unity, when you get within 4
>>> pixels of the edge, SNAP.  Now its covering many other windows I
>>> didn't want covered, whilst presenting vast swaths of useless
>>> whitespace (because its too big).
>>>
>>> I never much liked Operation...   :)
>>>
>>>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6MAkLJ79LE
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Bernhard Pieber <bernhard at pieber.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Dear all,
>>> >
>>> > I implemented a feature which some of you may know from Windows. When a
>>> > SystemWindow is dragged to one of the edges it is resized to that half of
>>> > the display. In addition, when it is dragged to one of the corners it is
>>> > resized to that quadrant of the display. See the following packages in the
>>> > Inbox:
>>> > - GraphicsTests-bp.39
>>> > - Graphics-bp.321
>>> > - Morphic-bp.1064
>>> > In order to use it you need to enable the preference Drag To Edges in
>>> > the Preference Browser, or just do:
>>> > SystemWindow dragToEdges: true
>>> >
>>> > If you have time to try it out, let me know what you think.
>>> >
>>> > - Bernhard
>>>
>>
>