guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) (06/03/88)
I'd love to see the following implemented in a window manager. When dragging a window's outline to move (or resize) it, require that some extra "force" be exerted before the outline is allowed to overlap a neighboring window, or to be dragged outside the screen. This might give the effect of windows "snapping" into place, neatly adjacent to each other (probably a little distance should be kept, e.g., 2 pixels). I understand there are some complexities in efficiently determining whether a window tends to overlap another window, but with a reasonable number of top-level windows around (< 25) this shouldn't be a problem. Who bites? (Tom, are you listening? :-) -- Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam guido@piring.cwi.nl or mcvax!piring!guido or guido%piring.cwi.nl@uunet.uu.net