Re:Tiling features in Mutter

[Oliver Mangold <o mangold googlemail com>]

Hi,

after a lot of checking I decided to continue on this for now by adding 
to tabbing/tiling features to the mutter source itself instead of as a 
gnome-shell plugin. Main reason for the decision is that I want to have 
tabbing. And for this a lot of extensions would have to added to mutter 
to do it from outside. I try to isolate my additions from the mainline 
mutter as far as possible. Design goal is to make it easy to separate is 
mainline mutter and what are tabbing/tiling additions. I hope with time 
it will become clear what are the minimal additions necessary to the 
mutter base. Than can be sorted out which parts we should aim to get 
into mainline.

As said, any help with the project is still welcome. What needs to be 
done for now is:
- adding some more keybinds for convenience, e.g. to change the order of 
the windows in the same tile or to cycle through the untiled windows
- changing the referencing concept (the tilings should reference the 
windows instead of the other way round). this makes sorting windows 
easier and is less intusive to mainline code
- adding save/restore tiling layout from/to config. I would like to get 
my tilings back after login/logout (maybe it is even possible to restore 
the windows in the original tiles).
- getting started with tabbing (this means figuring out how to add this 
to the frame)
- and of course testing and bugfixing

If anyone would like to do any of this, that would be great. Send me a 
mail, I probably can help you getting started.

Best,

Oliver