KDE's KWin Working On An Advanced Tiling System

[ElectricPrism]

We did it boys, sway is obsolete!!

You joke, sway daily user here -- the decoupled modular nature will always remain attractive, especially for odd use cases like on a Phone where resources are limited.

But then there are cool forks like https://github.com/fluix-dev/sway-borders where I can literally have complex window decorations and more "sci-fi" borders that are 50-100px (4k has pixels to spare)

Hats off to KDE, this predefined layout may be EXACTLY what I have been hoping for, I hope the boundaries can be static and windows can be dragged into a predefined box. Overflow of new windows could even spawn on 2-10.

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I also would be interested in holding down a modifier to drag and drop a floating window in said predefined positions. I really think there is room for innovation in Tiling that has not been completely realized yet.

I would be interested in if KDE can do window controls on the left and right -- I wouldn't mind having some on the left and some on the right to do a cool sci-fi look.

Anyways, these new features definitely have my attention and I'll be doing a test drive at some point to see if it offers the utility I'd love to see.

If I did do some KDE daily, I probably would import the puke green and grey theme from the Steam Deck that is so charmingly 1990s and old video game -- their virtual keyboard is so cool looking.

I'm not fond of the all-in-one desktop shells overall, but honestly there is charming utility in both Gnome and KDE in them clarifying their "visions" of their perspective interfaces.

Great work @ KDE, glad to donate to such a awesome group too.

[Vistaus]

I use openSUSE Krypton (KDE-git on tumbleweed) with wayland enabled on nvidia GPU and has been works just fine for a long time (okay yes there has been some minor issues)

Good for you, but that's not a KDE Neon contender. Only Argon is.

[slalomsk8er]

Tiling! This is HUGE!

especially on huge displays

[kylew77]

Is this the same project Distro Tube was talking about on Youtube called KDE Bismuth?

[mdedetrich]

Very, very nice, but y'all need to revert the UI by ~10 years and unround the corners so the tiles look better...or copy Windows 11. It alternates between rounded corners for floating windows and squared off corners for tiling windows; best of both worlds.

My attention to weird details means that I can't help but notice that divot where corners meet when tiling.

I am sure there are themes that you can use to make it look this way if its a dealbreaker for you. KDE isn't gnome, they don't have a problem with users customising it.

[darkbasic]

especially on huge displays

Using two monitors is stupid if you can use a tiling window manager and a super-wide monitor instead

[slalomsk8er]

Using two monitors is stupid if you can use a tiling window manager and a super-wide monitor instead

My budget dictates 3 monitors in place of a big one

[zexelon]

Using two monitors is stupid if you can use a tiling window manager and a super-wide monitor instead

I have a Odyssy G9, its awesome but I still find having the old Dell 4k stacked on top super helpful. That said I would really like to upgrade to the Odyssey Ark at some point... after selling several internal organs. I could see this being super useful on a screen like that!