Re: [PyWM-talk] feature possible?

[Jonathan N. W. <li...@fi...>]

On 13 Apr 2006, at 08:14, Elmo M=E4ntynen wrote:

> Jonathan North Washington wrote:
>
>> I'd like to hear people's thoughts on this.  I also wonder how easy
>> Elmo thinks this would be to implement, and whether it's an
>> appropriate feature for PyWM.
>
> This is definitely suited for pywm. If you have the time (shouldn't =20=

> take
> long), you can try to implement this in a wm-script and tell if
> something in pywm should adjusted to accomodate this kind of behavior
> better. Alternatively you can just wait till someone, like me,
> implements this, which should happen soon. Anyway, you should post any
> specific details you might have in mind so we can come up with a =20
> kind of
> spec.

I'm not sure about writing a wm script (I imagine that's best done =20
running PyWM, and I'm currently running OS X as my primary OS, so it =20
would take a little effort to figure out even what's entailed..), but =20=

here's the basic logic for what it should do:
- if window is being dragged and cursor hits a screen edge:
   - maximise window horizontally if top or bottom edge
   - maximise window vertically if left or right edge
   - reset area where windows can be maximised to the remaining =20
screen area
- if maximised window is dragged, unmaximise

I suppose there's a little bit more to it than that, but that should =20
provide the basics.  Seems pretty simple, and so useful it's a wonder =20=

all WMs don't do it..  There should probably be a way (in a config =20
file or menu somewhere) to enable and disable this feature.

And btw, my friend who came up with the demo calls the feature =20
"Window Locking".  I suppose that's a good name for it.

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Jonathan=