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The ability to turn off the maximize at top of screen and replace it with a fill top half and fill bottom half options like you can already to for the left and the right of the screen. any thoughts on this happening. it is useful for very large monitors and also for those with their monitors in portrait.

--Jezzirolk

Agree! I would use this almost as much as left and right snap. XFCE has it. Unity has it. It shouldn't be too hard to code, I imagine. Specifically, it'd be great to be able to trigger this by dragging windows to the top or bottom, and also by keyboard shortcut, as per the other orientations.

"Partially there already" as if you click with right mouse button or with middle mouse button the maximization button, you get the maximazition in horizontal or vertical direction.

Still snapping feature bottom and up would be good option for those want. Would make faster to get a WWW browser in two views in optimal width.

This will also mean new shortcuts:

quick tile top half
quick tile bottom half

I've been looking for that but since it does'nt seem to exist, I vote you up!

I would also love to have this feature, especially since I have a monitor in portrait.

Fri13, I didn't know that you could maximize in a particular direction, thanks!

+1

I'd use this feature

I just recently migrated from gnome/compiz to kde/kwin. Kwin provides 90% of what I used in compiz (and with much more stability) with this curious exception. It's definitely not a deal-break, but it is a bit of a nuance at times.

Even though from a development perspective this has been considered simply a feature request, from a UX perspective I'd consider this to be missing functionality or a design hole. It's like having a maximize button, but no restore.

Hunter82 wrote:from a UX perspective I'd consider this to be missing functionality or a design hole.

I think that one could easily argue that this is a bug, since the functionality to tile windows already exists, and there is an obvious deficiency in one dimension. I did file a bug here, although it has since been closed.

Hwesta wrote:Fri13, I didn't know that you could maximize in a particular direction, thanks!

I was also unaware of that. I already have a keyboard shortcut for any of the 4 corners. Now if I have another shortcut for "maximize horizontally" and I hammer both shortcuts in quick sequence, it will accomplish the top or bottom full-width tile. I don't mind hitting the two shortcuts in a row, but it should be trivial to make it even easier and combine both shortcuts into some kind of combo shortcut (I'm fairly new to KDE so don't know how, but it's got to be possible).

Doesn't fix the mouse gesture issue, but keyboard shortcuts are better than nothing, plus I like moust drag to top to remain maximize as it currently is.