[compiz] Scale thumb placing.

Colin Guthrie
Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:04:10 -0000

Diogo Ferreira wrote:
> Are there any plans to make the placing on the scale plugin better?
>
> Also, when there are lots of windows sometimes window thumbs are placed
> under other thumbs making them impossible to click.
>
> Will this grid layout be the default method for scaling or are you going
> to make it so that windows move the least possible?
>
> Congrats for the great work being done by davidr, danw and all the
> community.

Have a look on www.compiz.net forums. There is lots of discussion about
the algorithm there and about implementing multiple algorithms to place
things in a non-grid format etc.

Hopefully if good progress is made there the patches can go upstream.

Col.