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GNOME 45 Release Notes (release.gnome.org)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

When can we (if ever) expect that auto-tiling thingy?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s no timeline or roadmap at this stage, but it’s definitely 46+ material and likely to take multiple cycles. There are individual parts of this that could be worked on independently ahead of the more contingent pieces, for example tiling groups or new window metadata. Help in any of these areas would be appreciated.

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-window-management/

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow. Moving the windows that don't fit in the current workspace to a new one is such a simple idea that might turn out to be incredibly effective. I love that Gnome exists to challenge the established design patterns and try to replace them, even though I'm not actively using it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

When I first started using Gnome I found it to be a nightmare precisely because of that, so I added a bunch of extensions to change the workflow back to the Win95 UX that practically everybody else still uses.

Then, after someone recommended it to me, I tried the stock Gnome workflow. It was awful at first. But after a few days it just 'clicked' and I was like damn this workflow is amazing. And now I can't go back.

It just makes sense and works in a way that's IMO more efficient and less clunky once you get past the expectation that all OS UX should work like Microsoft's UX.

I'm glad that KDE is putting in groundwork for their own (optional) 'activities' view, because I seriously miss it anytime I'm not using Gnome.