pop-os
Feature request: setting that unstacks when only one window remains in a stack
(1) Issue/Bug Description:
Windows Title still there after seperating
(2) Steps to reproduce (if you know):
Two WIndows without any issue
after seperating windows title still there
(3) Expected behavior: windows title should not be there after seperating
(4) Distribution (run cat /etc/os-release):
PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling"
NAME="Kali GNU/Linux"
ID=kali
VERSION="2022.3"
VERSION_ID="2022.3"
VERSION_CODENAME="kali-rolling"
ID_LIKE=debian
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"
HOME_URL="https://www.kali.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.kali.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.kali.org/"
(5) Gnome Shell version: 42.3.1
(7) Where was Pop Shell installed from: https://github.com/pop-os/shell
How about adding an option to do this? This table bar is useless when only one window is in the stack, I don't like doing it manually with SUPER+S.
I'm a fan of the current behaviour. Once I've chosen an area of the screen to have stacked windows in it I find it useful that it stays that way.
I am as well. I can see the merits of having a setting though, so I've revised this issue to be a feature request.
I'm a fan of the current behaviour. Once I've chosen an area of the screen to have stacked windows in it I find it useful that it stays that way.
That is simple. stacked state goes from boolean to tri-state. 0 = not stacked, 1 = user stacked, 2 = auto stacked
User stacked windows stay stacked as you desire but auto stacked reverts to unstacked.
That is simple.
stackedstate goes from boolean to tri-state. 0 = not stacked, 1 = user stacked, 2 = auto stacked User stacked windows stay stacked as you desire but auto stacked reverts to unstacked.
I thought you could only get the Pop UI to stack things manually. Does it stack windows automatically?
To me this is a really weird UI decision, but looking back through the threads, there is a camp who believes that not doing this is a really weird UI decision. So I would like a setting for this.
Maybe I don't fully grok the Zen Of Stacking, but I don't understand why you'd want the tab bar remaining when there's only one tab. Frequently I accidentally stack two windows (let's say two PDFs I'm comparing) when I meant to open them side by side; then dragging one out of the stack to tile horizontally leaves them asymmetric (the windows are different sizes, so internal scroll bars act differently etc), since the undragged window has the useless tab bar at the top, which I have to manually remove with Super+S.
Maybe I don't fully grok the Zen Of Stacking, but I don't understand why you'd want the tab bar remaining when there's only one tab.
The only benefit is that it would slightly speed up moving another window into the stack if you actually wanted the stack to still exist and were simply rearranging windows in and out of it. E.g. you have a stack with three windows; you move two windows out, then want to move a fourth window into the stack using the keyboard. (I use three instead of two for this example since for two, you could have just swapped the windows.) It saves several keystrokes to not have to press Super+S again when moving a second window back into the stack.
(I can understand how you wouldn't have considered this, since it sounds like you use the mouse more than the keyboard for moving windows around. We could reconsider having the last window unstack when using the mouse but not when using the keyboard to move the second-to-last window out, but then the behavior becomes less consistent.)
So I would like a setting for this.
We'd probably accept a contribution to add this setting as long as it doesn't cause any regressions (and it would need to be in the advanced extension settings, not the top-right menu.)
I'm a newcomer to Pop so you're right that I haven't yet learned the keyboard manipulation of the tiles. I'll get there and what you're saying makes sense. Definitely would be an advanced settings sort of thing. I might have a go at it myself.