Developer: will "completely reconstruct" the interactive design of Linux GNOME desktop window

CTOnews.com August 9 news, GNOME project team developer Tobias Bernard recently through a long article detailed the GNOME design team to redesign the desktop window management work, he said, the ultimate goal is to redesign the "window management", so that the new interactive experience as the default solution for the desktop environment.

According to CTOnews.com, Tobias Bernard is the interaction designer of the GNOME project team, responsible for the design of GNOME. He has previously studied the current interaction mode of GNOME and found that for novice users, the steps of manually dragging and dropping and zooming desktop windows are quite cumbersome, and there is room for improvement.

In a long article, Tobias Bernard presents his own conceptual design, hoping to create an "ideal desktop window management approach" for a variety of users, key details of which include:

The software is able to automatically perform actions that users may want based on "pre-associations."

Use workspaces as fully integrated parts of your workflow.

Get richer metadata from applications for better integration.

On the UI side, the new desktop window uses a combination of three layouts:

Mosaic, similar to Windows 8 era "Modern UI (Metro UI)" tile placement form, each software window tiled together, more freedom when dealing with multitasking.

Tiling close to the edge, similar to the current Apple for macOS and iPadOS introduced in front of the scheduling function, focusing on the display of important software windows, storage of unnecessary software windows, improve user attention.

Float, a form of window commonly used in major operating systems.