Hi Jakob,

Thank you for your feedback. I agree that something like Alt-Tab or Exposé would be super cool.

Cheers,
Bernhard

> Am 11.01.2016 um 22:39 schrieb Jakob Reschke <jakob.reschke at student.hpi.de>:
> 
> 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
>>> 
>> 
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