Scrolling layout

[Tamnac]

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Proposal

I'm not sure how feasible this is, but a layout implementation that works like a scrolling window manager.

The idea of a scrolling wm is instead of arranging windows to within your monitor sizer, it gives you a virtual infinite space which your windows can open in and then you can scroll around to the one you want. Can be either 1D horizontal or vertical, or a 2D plane (theoretically 3D is possible too but that's unnecessary).

It's a confusing concept so here's a couple of examples:

Niri - horizontally scrolling wm: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri

Newm - 2D wm with touchpad support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCHtwyD1wzo

I'm new to this project so I don't know its feasibility but it would be very cool.

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[dalyIsaac]

It's definitely feasible, probably even with Whim in its current state by doing a custom ILayoutEngine implementation. I'm open to working on it in the future, or helping out if someone else wants to give it a crack.