[Bug 2054481] Re: Move "enhanced tiling" into Keyboard settings
Paul White
2054481 at bugs.launchpad.net
Thu Nov 14 16:13:39 UTC 2024
Reviewing the bug description it seems that gnome-control-center (which
is the Settings application) is the correct package for this report so
moving.
** Package changed: ubuntu-settings (Ubuntu) => gnome-control-center
(Ubuntu)
** Tags added: mantic
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Title:
Move "enhanced tiling" into Keyboard settings
Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Starting in 23.10, Ubuntu introduced "enhanced tiling", which modifies
the default behavior for Super+Right so that it does not only moves
the window over to one side, but it also brings up a task-switcher for
the remaining space.
I wanted to turn this off, but did not know what it was called or what
program/library etc. was causing it. It was a change to the behavior
of a keyboard shortcut, so I went to "keyboard shortcuts". There it
still says Super+Right is "view split on right". This not accurate
anymore, as that is only half of what Super+Right does with Enhanced
Tiling on.
I had to do like 15 different Google searches before finding this Ask
Ubuntu question
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1494628/how-can-i-disable-the-new-
superarrow-window-screen-aligning-feature
which finally relieved my confusion, told me the name of the behavior,
and allowed me to turn it off in the unexpected "Ubuntu Desktop"
location.
Please somehow make it clear from the keyboard settings that "enhanced
tiling" exists, since it does modify keyboard behavior to be other
than what keyboard settings says it is. You could do this by:
- having "View Split On Left" and "Enhanced Tiling To Left" be two separate actions, and Super+left/right could be assigned to one or the other
- somehow indicate the existence of Enhanced Tiling in the description of the keyboard action, like "View Split on left (see also Enhanced Tiling)" would have at least let me know I needed to search for an "Enhanced Tiling" setting
See also related bug I filed for documenting Enhanced Tiling as part
of keyboard shortcuts in ubuntu-docs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/2054478
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