I just gave it a try right now, and Firefox became so huge I needed a good 15 seconds to resize it so that it would fit my screen. If you unplug your monitor, you're SoL if you need to retrieve some window that's now floating outside your viewport. You have to move the windows around, adjust their size manually, etc. Maybe because this isn't really how you're supposed to use i3, so there's no "maximize", or "snap to edges" or similar. You can even take a group of windows and have the entire group be a floating window, with the individual windows inside the group continuing to follow the tiling model among themselves.īut it's not something I find practical for some reason, even though I have a fairly simple keyboard shortcut to switch between tiling and floating. You can have all windows in floating mode, which makes the whole desktop behave like a regular stacking WM, though you can't "minimize" them, so it can quickly become a mess. I use i3, and I can set any window to "floating" mode. There is a utility called Alt-Tab that lets you fix this, at least. It remains minimized and useless in the dock. but it's often useless because when you Command-Tab to an app, Apple doesn't restore its window. Oh, and then Apple added Alt-Tab-style app switching. In the case of two-button mice, Apple came out with a mouse that hid the second button and in fact was nearly unusable because the entire shell was the button so you couldn't lift the mouse and keep the button held to continue a scroll. In the case of the windows, there's no window border and the cursor frequently fails to change to the "resizing" one. And when Apple finally does capitulate and admit that others have done it better, they petulantly try to hide the functionality anyway. When I started at Apple as an engineer, the first bug I filed was "Can't resize windows from their edges" (or any corner except one). + A very similar case that ties into this is how the Finder went from being fully spatial to a half-spatial half-global compromise.Īpple loves to hide functionality to the point where it essentially doesn't exist. In a way Apple either did not embrace the winlin paradigm enough (e.g having a proper Maximize alongside Zoom + having an option for per window cmd tab) or they did not stick to their guns enough (enforcing Zoom to be correct + having a worthy fullscreen/tiling implementation) and we're left with a shitty compromise. And then a vicious circle starts where more apps don't care about what it's supposed to do, and before you know it Zoom is mostly falling back to being Maximize most of the time, and people wonder why when it's doing the original Zoom thing it behaves differently and think it's weird and broken (which is perfectly understandable) Now, in practice, Zoom is really nice when it works (I'm using it all the time with Finder+ windows), the problem is that it takes a single app not providing the content size hint for it to break and make it confusing. IMHO macOS should have both Maximize and Zoom as they do different things and serve different use cases (Apple seems to think that if you want Maximize you actually want fullscreen, which kind of makes sense in a way, except not, e.g when one wants to still be desktopish and rely on cmd tab or cmd backtick, and because the fullscreen/tiling/spaces is crappily implemented for power users)
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