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
>>
>