Wayland Window Management Proposal

[Casey Dahlin]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 03:13:01PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> On 13 May 2011 11:26, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 06:22:01PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> >> You can't expect that every single client is high-priority and lag-free.
> >
> > Run better clients, then? Or stop trying to micro-optimise for the case
> > of pressing the close button on an unresponsive client?
> >
> 
> This is not about pressing the close button. It need not have an
> immediate response and people can accept that, there are workarounds
> and you close windows only so often.
> 
> However, window resizes need to be responsive otherwise you introduce
> lag, possibly to the point that the person moving the mouse has no
> clue what is going on the moment a window resize is initiated.
> 

You can always use the "rubber band" style of resize, in which case the window
only needs to be told about the resize, and respond to it, when the user picks
a size and drops the corner.

In fact you can pretty easily do both, where the rubber band appears when the
window hasn't managed to keep up, so the user still has a visual cue to what
they are doing.

--CJD