Open Lillian-Violet opened 1 month ago
We will probably not introduce more window management concepts at this point in development.
But there have been frequent requests for more options, so we might (long-term) try to provide an api to have external programs add new window management options. Additionally we want to enable changing the compositor, so you could e.g. run niri instead of cosmic-comp in your session to get scrolling window management.
While the tiling window management style is tried and tested, and quite good for a lot of use cases. I would like to see an option for scrolling window management like the cardboard wm POC. I have seen a lot of enthousiasm for this concept, and I think a lot of people would adopt it given the chance. But it hasn't really been implemented in a big project in a satisfactory way.
The main concepts are: