dgurkaynak / Penc

Trackpad-oriented window manager for macOS
https://deniz.co/penc/
MIT License
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Better UX for multi-window arranger #25

Open jcampbell05 opened 2 years ago

jcampbell05 commented 2 years ago

I love the new UX but I think it could do with some refinement 😀

Firstly if there could be a fade-in / face-out animation so it doesn't just pop in and out. Finally if the boxes could have some sort of a screenshot of the application (Perhaps blurred just like on iPad so avoid seeing the distortion of the image) or the title of the window just like in Mission Control it would make it easier to understand what specific window you are moving

dgurkaynak commented 2 years ago

I've always been a kind of a developer who thinks that most of the UI animations suck, but you're totally right, even the basic fade-in/out animation will be better in terms of UX.

In the first prototypes, there writes window title instead of app name. However gathering window title from Accessibility API is an costly operation, if there are too many visible windows on your screen(s), it delays the activation time significantly, so I switch to app name. Maybe we can add an option to show window title instead of app name.