I see no harm in adding this to the image.


Best,
Karl

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Bernhard Pieber <bernhard at pieber.com>
wrote:

> Hi Frank,
>
> Yes, keyboard support would be cool, too. Note though, that currently
> dragging to the top edge does not maximise, just snap and resize to the top
> half. Dragging to the corners snaps and resizes to the respective quadrant.
>
> Cheers,
> Bernhard
>
> > Am 12.01.2016 um 10:49 schrieb Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>:
> >
> > 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
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
>
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