[HN Gopher] Cardboard: a scrollable tiling window manager ___________________________________________________________________ Cardboard: a scrollable tiling window manager Author : SamWhited Score : 49 points Date : 2022-02-20 01:32 UTC (3 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.ctrl.blog) (TXT) w3m dump (www.ctrl.blog) | Gualdrapo wrote: | This is reminiscent of Gnome's PaperWM [0]. Not a Gnome user and | just had the chance to try it for less than an hour, but the | experience in my head sounded better than it was in reality - | though was more of 'unexpected behavior' things than faults in | the concept. | | I think this approach tries to solve the 'cramming too much | windows in a single virtual desktop' that sometimes can be felt | with tiling WMs. For example, when I'm drawing something in Krita | I'd want to see some references of what I'm drawing - I'd just | scroll a bit to unveil an adjacent Falkon window to browse some | images on the internet, do some strokes and scroll back to | Krita's window - without having to resize it in half. | | [0] https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM | operator-name wrote: | I've sadly had a similar experience with System 76's Pop | Shell[0]. That said I suspect graphical workloads and | applications designed around conventional sizes and aspec | ratios are generally not well suites for TWMs. | | [0]: https://github.com/pop-os/shell | drekipus wrote: | Interesting take, but I can't see much use for it perhaps. I'd | probably prefer vertical scrolling, and to be frank I did | something like this a long time ago by setting my Xorg screen | settings to be larger than my monitor (and then scrolling around | with the mouse). Tie that with a tiling window manager like | awesomeWM so that you can configure while you work and it should | work out to be just about the same experience. | | Highly appreciative of people trying new things though, I will | never shut down people's desire to experiment. More power to them | I say, one day someone might stumble into something that really | _really_ works wonders. | | edit: sorry, I thought the project WAS PaperWM. but no it's | cardboard that has been inspired by PaperWM. | skavi wrote: | Is it just me or is their demo video flickering? | unfocussed_mike wrote: | "exciting" | | More like hell on earth. | throwaway984393 wrote: | ............ Why? | habitue wrote: | This is cool. Would be good to see vertical scrolling as well | DiggyJohnson wrote: | How ready is this to replace i3? | danuker wrote: | > The WM isn't suitable for day-to-day use by most users. It | doesn't support drag-and-drop and other features most people | would consider being necessities. | coldblues wrote: | Truly awesome. This might be a game-changer for laptops. If I | were actively using a laptop, I would definitely be using this. | unfocussed_mike wrote: | Why not use a series of full-screen apps like in Monterey? | | I don't get it. Horizontal scrolling is such a jarring | experience. | gjvc wrote: | content vertical, context horizontal. Not so revolutionary. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-02-23 23:00 UTC)