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The Kwin should implement some thing like this:
When any window is moved or dragged to the top edge of the screen then the window can be maximized but when pull off the top off should be restored..

... Exactly like Windows 7, you mean?

What's wrong with the, "Allow maximised windows to be moved/resized" checkbox?

yes like windows 7 it;s great...

... That didn't answer my second question.

I really don't see the point in this behaviour. I can just pull the app out of maximise anyway, with that setting enabled. I can just resize it down from maximise, if I figure its too big.

Yes, one of new features in W7. I can double click on title bar or use mouse wheel to do this...

"Tile Vertically" and "Tile Horizontally" - this is one of new features of W7 - is missing.

"Dragging a window to the left or right of the screen makes it take up half the screen allowing one to tile two windows next to each other."

That's exactly the kind of behaviour I hate. I often e.g. move a Kopete window to the side of the screen so I can read the text in my Konqueror window. I don't WANT it to take up MORE screen space, I WANT it to GET OUT OF THE WAY. That's why I moved it in the first place! I find this kind of presumption that Microsoft makes just irritating and nothing else. They can't even tell the difference between a, "Feature", and a, "Bug".

I don't see the point - if I want to quickly maximize windows, KDE has double-click on the titlebar as the default. Double-clicking is way easier and faster than dragging the window to the top of the screen. It's just a major annoyance if I actually want to move a window up to see something on the bottom of a different window.

i think we should brainstorm on this topic and make a decision..

dragging to the top for maximizing is a useful feature as far as i have used in win 7

Ujjwol wrote:dragging to the top for maximizing is a useful feature as far as i have used in win 7

And why's that? What's the use case?

Why not to implement this as Screen edge behavior or even a compiz effect (it is a fancy option and coumpiz is a tool to make desktop fancy ) , optional and simple

p.s. could you make a screen-cast of this win7 because most of us don't use win at all

first of all.. i think this should be implemented as kwin desktop effekt and there is already an effect called "snap helper" which does nothing other than show some stupid lines.. this helps nothing!
maybe it should be an option in the "sceen edges setup"


@Madman: you definitely did not try this feature on windows 7.. man.. i really don't like windows.. but i had to setup a win7 machine.. after 10 minutes i started to use every single one of the aero features.. drag to the right/left for tiling .. drag to the top for fullscreen... shake for making all windows except the one shaked dissapear..
i think they speak for themselves ...

those features are great and there is no way they could ever interfere with your wish to get an app "out of the way" TRY IT !! its very well implemented!
you have to touch the edge with your mouse and stay there for a while.. (there's a timeout)

kde already has "active edges" and there is no problem with that...

@Hans: the use case is "getting the window maximized" or "get the window to use half of the screen without struggle"

dragging to the top isn't really urgent because of the "doubleclick on titlebar" feature.. but sometimes dragging is more welcome than doubleclicking...

This is already implemented in KDE 4.4.

This is probably the only feature I have used in windows 7 that I would love to see ported to kwin. It really is useful at times.

Edit: Ahh I just saw TheBlackCat's post. I am really looking forward to 4.4!