https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495017

--- Comment #8 from [email protected] ---
(In reply to grog from comment #7)
> To clarify, this applies when only one window is open, right? It wouldn't
> make sense to change this behaviour when working with multiple tiled
> windows. The last paragraph is the comment I wrote out before realizing this
> might be the case. Leaving it there just in case it actually is relevant.
> 
> If we're talking about having a single window open, my suggestion would be
> to temporarily adjust the tile layout until the tiled window is closed or
> moved. This way you could always add another window to the current layout
> without having to re-tile the first one (at which point the layout should be
> saved and continue to work as usual), but if the lone window gets untiled by
> moving or closing it, the layout will remain unchanged.
> 
> If this is about multiple tiled windows:
> > If I'm understanding correctly, this would break my workflow and be 
> > counterintuitive to any newcomers. 
> > Currently if I have 3 windows tiled and I resize window 1, it will also 
> > resize window 2 to make room for it.
> > This is the behaviour most people would expect given that it is the way it 
> > works in Windows, MacOS, as well as every other WM I can think of including 
> > tiling WMs.
> > What is being suggested here would mean having to open the tile layout for 
> > every adjustment.

I do not mean when only one window is open, no. I mean when I have multiple
windows open.
I expect my window grid to be fixed, and then I pick in what position I want to
put each window. If I resize one of the windows in the grid, I want to make
that window a floating one instead of messing with my grid and having to edit
to kwinrc file to get it back to how it was.
Here is a (censored) screenshot of how I use my screen:
https://yakumo.lzzbr.com/fh/zones.webp

I never used tiled window managers like i3, so I don't know how they work, but
I understand they try to always fill your screen, and this is not good for my
setup (4k 48" display). What I liked when I used Windows was a small program
called gridmove. I also never got to try FancyZones because I stopped using
Windows before it was released, but FancyZones seems to be exactly what I'd
like to have in KDE. I don't think I am alone in this. At very least my
brother, another everyday Plasma user, also completely agrees with me.

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