3 ms·

tiling is one of those things that always look cool to me on project websites but I would never, ever use myself. I admit I just can't convince myself that peo

tiling is one of those things that always look cool to me on project websites but I would never, ever use myself. I admit I just can't convince myself that people actually use these projects in their day-to-day. Are they just neat projects? Do they just make great screenshots? I always browse in only one of two configurations: maximized window, or two maximized in vertical split (Win+left and Win+Right key combos). Anything smaller, such as giving a page just the lower-right quarter of the screen as in the screenshots, would just be way too small for any modern pages to render in a useful way. Ok so making one split may technically be tiling, but I don't think that's what anyone really means when they are talking about tiling. They're talking about at least three subdivisions. Surely I can't be the only one like this.

godDLL 5y ago
I'm on the other end of that spectrum. I can't for the life of me understand why any website would need to have more than a half of my vertical screen. And if the UI design lets me get away with it, less. The only scenarios for a full-screen window in the browser, for me is while watching a video (not always, sometimes) or reading a lengthy single-page thing, or perhaps looking at a cloud provider dashboard with many, many things presented in as much detail as their UX engineer can not contextualize for you. So mostly full screen video, sometimes. Other than that, no, I have things on my screen open for work or context. No fullscreen windows, please.
csdvrx 5y ago
In Windows, I have a AHK script that turns a window into a small rectangle at the bottom of my screen, with 70% transparency, always on top, no titlebar: it lets me continue on my current task with minimal distraction, as it's see-through. I use that to keep an eye on long running operations, on notes I take in notepad during a conference call, etc. I press again the key, and the windows becomes another normal window again. I guess that's tiling? Otherwise, I do as you do for most of my apps: I run them in full screen mode, but no task bar, not even a titlebar as I find that too distracting. I strip down most of the details until only the app itself remains. It helps me focus, and remove useless cruft. About cruft, IDE are among the most awful offenders, full of so many ribbons, margins and other gimmicks that they ressemble Word in its hayday ( check https://i.huffpost.com/gen/714057/thumbs/o-MICROSOFT-TOOLBAR-570.jpg https://i.huffpost.com/gen/714057/thumbs/o-MICROSOFT-TOOLBAR... if you don't get what I mean ), with less and less of the screen usable for the actual principal function: writing (and reading)
- metalliqaz 5y ago
  that's a neat idea, put it on github :)
stronglikedan 5y ago
I tile (in the traditional sense) when I have the screen real estate to do so. Particularly when using large (>=32") screens with at least 4k resolution. However, I do find Windows built-in window arrangement tools (Win+arrows) to be suitable for that task.
- metalliqaz 5y ago
  I have a quad-monitor setup, perhaps all my maximized windows are technically "tiled"...
gonehome 5y ago
Yeah - I used xmonad on arch for a bit in college for the novelty and agree. Magnet on macOS is good enough. The other thing about tiling window managers is often the graphics of the window are really ugly with bad fonts - not specifically a tiling issue but another thing I didn't like about using it. I use a large high res display too - the advantage from tiling just isn't that real or important imo.
jeppesen-io 5y ago
I can relate. I've tried various tilling solutions, but they never actually work in the real world. Always an edge case or you lose basic functions like adjusting everything when you dock a laptop That was until I used paperwm. It's diffent from most tiling because it works out of the box for everything I do daily. Slack, zoom, terminal and chrome mostly It does this by scrolling horizontally and all windows default full height. Matches perfectly to my mental model of window workflow Works so nicely because you hide windows without minimizing, just scroll away I've always thought of it as tiling for humans, in a joking manner
Zababa 5y ago
> I always browse in only one of two configurations: maximized window, or two maximized in vertical split (Win+left and Win+Right key combos). I only ever use my computer this way, except for a few floating windows like quick terminal stuff or using a file picker. I do think a tiling window manager would be fine, I would just switch to a new desktop if I need new windows, and I wouldn't have to manage the windows manually.

godDLL 5y ago

I'm on the other end of that spectrum. I can't for the life of me understand why any website would need to have more than a half of my vertical screen. And if the UI design lets me get away with it, less. The only scenarios for a full-screen window in the browser, for me is while watching a video (not always, sometimes) or reading a lengthy single-page thing, or perhaps looking at a cloud provider dashboard with many, many things presented in as much detail as their UX engineer can not contextualize for you. So mostly full screen video, sometimes. Other than that, no, I have things on my screen open for work or context. No fullscreen windows, please.

csdvrx 5y ago

In Windows, I have a AHK script that turns a window into a small rectangle at the bottom of my screen, with 70% transparency, always on top, no titlebar: it lets me continue on my current task with minimal distraction, as it's see-through. I use that to keep an eye on long running operations, on notes I take in notepad during a conference call, etc. I press again the key, and the windows becomes another normal window again. I guess that's tiling? Otherwise, I do as you do for most of my apps: I run them in full screen mode, but no task bar, not even a titlebar as I find that too distracting. I strip down most of the details until only the app itself remains. It helps me focus, and remove useless cruft. About cruft, IDE are among the most awful offenders, full of so many ribbons, margins and other gimmicks that they ressemble Word in its hayday ( check https://i.huffpost.com/gen/714057/thumbs/o-MICROSOFT-TOOLBAR-570.jpg https://i.huffpost.com/gen/714057/thumbs/o-MICROSOFT-TOOLBAR... if you don't get what I mean ), with less and less of the screen usable for the actual principal function: writing (and reading)

metalliqaz 5y ago
that's a neat idea, put it on github :)

stronglikedan 5y ago

I tile (in the traditional sense) when I have the screen real estate to do so. Particularly when using large (>=32") screens with at least 4k resolution. However, I do find Windows built-in window arrangement tools (Win+arrows) to be suitable for that task.

metalliqaz 5y ago
I have a quad-monitor setup, perhaps all my maximized windows are technically "tiled"...

gonehome 5y ago

Yeah - I used xmonad on arch for a bit in college for the novelty and agree. Magnet on macOS is good enough. The other thing about tiling window managers is often the graphics of the window are really ugly with bad fonts - not specifically a tiling issue but another thing I didn't like about using it. I use a large high res display too - the advantage from tiling just isn't that real or important imo.

jeppesen-io 5y ago

I can relate. I've tried various tilling solutions, but they never actually work in the real world. Always an edge case or you lose basic functions like adjusting everything when you dock a laptop That was until I used paperwm. It's diffent from most tiling because it works out of the box for everything I do daily. Slack, zoom, terminal and chrome mostly It does this by scrolling horizontally and all windows default full height. Matches perfectly to my mental model of window workflow Works so nicely because you hide windows without minimizing, just scroll away I've always thought of it as tiling for humans, in a joking manner

Zababa 5y ago

> I always browse in only one of two configurations: maximized window, or two maximized in vertical split (Win+left and Win+Right key combos). I only ever use my computer this way, except for a few floating windows like quick terminal stuff or using a file picker. I do think a tiling window manager would be fine, I would just switch to a new desktop if I need new windows, and I wouldn't have to manage the windows manually.