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The only way to be productive... for a developer. The great majority of computer users have little to no need to tile anything, to be productive.
by kirion25 8y ago
The only way to be productive... for a developer. The great majority of computer users have little to no need to tile anything, to be productive.
- idle_zealot 8y agoI'd argue that the desire to have windows side-by-side when multitasking is far more common than to have them be particularly overlapping and hiding one another. Certainly a lot of what I do on a computer is development, but tiling makes composing emails, image editting, writing, and web browsing less painful too. Floating windows seem to be prioritizing a metaphor over usability.
- anthk 8y ago>Floating windows seem to be prioritizing a metaphor over usability. That's why Microsoft set the "always on top TWM/FVWM IconBar", that's it, the taskbar.
- swah 8y agoThe widespread shortcut/gesture for making a window full height and half-screen width was a good middle ground for me. Tiling WMs (which I tried 10 years ago?) would always break on some programs (say Gimp), then you had to run that program in "floating mode" and its already too much overhead for me...