QuickTile 0.2.0

As of yesterday, QuickTile requires the Python bindings for libwnck. What advantages does this bring? Well, here’s a changelog for the more significant of the recent commits:

0.2.1 (changes made not long after this post):

• Redesigned the help output with better explanations of what the commands do.
• Bugfix for toggling horizontal/vertical-only maximization.
• Added commands for:
  • Switching workspaces (virtual desktops) or sending windows to them.
  • Toggling various common window states like always-on-top/bottom.
  • Triggering keyboard-driven move/resize.

0.2.0:

• Applications like Wine and OpenOffice/LibreOffice which change the window gravity no longer mess up positioning. (Fixes #3)
• QuickTile now announces itself to the window manager as a pager-like utility. (Probably removes the need for a workaround for #5)
• Lots of code pruned out since it’s now handled more cleanly by libwnck.
• A cleaner internal architecture (though there’s still work to be done)

0.1.6 (in testing since last weekend):

• Proper handling for desktops where panels or monitor sizes render the usable region non-rectangular. (Fixes #4)

This should also mean a much faster rate of development because…

• It was becoming prohibitively complicated to use python-xlib to reinvent functionality already present in libwnck.
• Each piece of libwnck functionality reinvented via python-xlib was an additional hurdle to eventually supporting Python 3.
• libwnck offers Glib events like window-opened which should greatly simplify some planned features.

Plus, given that QuickTile is a GTK+ app which deals with window management and libwnck is the GTK+ library for building such apps, I really should have been using it from the beginning anyway.

QuickTile 0.2.0 by Stephan Sokolow is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.