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mlajtos / mosaic

A tiling web browser.
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Keyboard Tile Controls #37

Open beef331 opened 3 years ago

beef331 commented 3 years ago

Currently, atleast as far as I can tell there are no methods of changing focused tile, or resizing with just keyboard alone. Something akin to tiling window managers.

alt + r or ctrl + r could put you into resize mode then you could use arrows to expand in a given direction by fixed unit count. alt + arrows could move tile focus around. alt + shift + arrows could swap tiles with the tile in the given direction.

mlajtos commented 3 years ago

Yes, the keyboard support is far from usable.

Alt R is "€" for me; Alt (Shift) ←→ are used for word-boundary text cursor jump and selection. So these shortcuts cannot be used. It also cannot be something like tiling managers are using, because it would clash with them. There has to be probably a mode or configurable keyboard shortcuts. Do you have any preference?

[shortcut] could swap tiles with the tile in the given direction.

This is the functionality I would like to see being done with a mouse. However, it won't made into this codebase. Second iteration without Golden Layout library should be much much easier to hack on and get details right.

beef331 commented 3 years ago

Well I think the hotkeys should be customizable by the user, and you can disable the tiling navigation/resizing and the like when an input is active, assuming there is some callback telling you that. I very much like the premise of being able to use the keyboard, goes very well with tilling applications.