Designing Aero Snap (2009)

Re:Designing Aero Snap (2009) by ginko on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:57AM (#28401894)

Windows 7 was really when Microsoft took a bunch of features that had been in Linux display managers for ages (tiling, window snapping) and added them to their own OS.

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Re:Designing Aero Snap (2009) by dataflow on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:43AM (#28402174)

Meanwhile it only took 3 decades for Linux folks to realize it's not a crazy idea to want to open a handle to a process and wait for it to exit.

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Re:Designing Aero Snap (2009) by salamandersauce on Friday September 03, 2021 @09:39AM (#28404056)

I think Aero Snap was originally shown off first as a Windows 7 feature when they announced it but was quickly duplicated by Linux DEs before it even launched.

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Re:Designing Aero Snap (2009) by nguyenkien on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:05AM (#28401949)

I don't think Microsoft copy Snap from Linux. I use Ubuntu 8.10, and it doesn't have snap, I do try KDE4 and it also not has anything like Snap

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Re:Designing Aero Snap (2009) by ginko on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:12AM (#28401986)

XFCE had it for ages

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Re:Designing Aero Snap (2009) by marcodiego on Friday September 03, 2021 @07:30AM (#28402793)

Actually me and friends made fun of windows user when windows 7 was released. Most of those effects were things we had on compiz for a few years but with MUCH more power.

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Re:Designing Aero Snap (2009) by nguyenkien on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:47AM (#28402198)

What ages we talk about? Because Windows 7 also aged.

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Re:Designing Aero Snap (2009) by ginko on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:54AM (#28402250)

Like 2000 and earlier ages:

https://web.archive.org/web/20000619002010/http://www.xfce.o...

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Re:Designing Aero Snap (2009) by nguyenkien on Friday September 03, 2021 @02:46PM (#28407847)

The "Windows snapping" in early Xfce version mean to stick the windows together or with the screen edge (Doesn't resize the window). It doesn't work like the snap on Windows 7. The name is similar, but the function is different.

This is a patch for Xfwm4 to make it work like Windows 7 (2012) https://launchpad.net/~fossfreedom/+archive/ubuntu/xfwm4

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Re:Designing Aero Snap (2009) by fomine3 on Friday September 03, 2021 @06:22AM (#28402397)

Win7 taskbar was also excellent copy (or improvement) of OSX Dock.

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