The biggest reason for me being excited about System76’s new DE is that they’ll implement 1st class tiling support. Tiling being only possible through extensions on Gnome comes with limitations/bugs I don’t experience on tiling compositors like sway and hyprland.
That’s why I’m really happy to see work going into native tiling on Gnome and I’ll definitely give it a go once some working prototype is available.
Yea, this would really be a step forward, but also a step out of the comfort zone of some newcomers. We haven’t seen much but I hope it won’t be to aggressive so problems like described in the article, where windows get to big, or to small wont happen.
Yes. The biggest hurdle is application support. Gnome apps might be quite convergent and might even support this new “max size” API but most cross-platform apps probably won’t.
So hopefully they’ll also develop ways for this to work well for apps that don’t provide any info.
The biggest reason for me being excited about System76’s new DE is that they’ll implement 1st class tiling support. Tiling being only possible through extensions on Gnome comes with limitations/bugs I don’t experience on tiling compositors like sway and hyprland.
That’s why I’m really happy to see work going into native tiling on Gnome and I’ll definitely give it a go once some working prototype is available.
Yea, this would really be a step forward, but also a step out of the comfort zone of some newcomers. We haven’t seen much but I hope it won’t be to aggressive so problems like described in the article, where windows get to big, or to small wont happen.
Yes. The biggest hurdle is application support. Gnome apps might be quite convergent and might even support this new “max size” API but most cross-platform apps probably won’t.
So hopefully they’ll also develop ways for this to work well for apps that don’t provide any info.