Tiled windows don't look tiled

[vixalien]

When you tile a window, say to the right with Tiling Assitant, it retains the round edges and still looks as a non-tiled application.

Here's some pictures for reference

Tiled window using GNOME native tiling

A closer look at the bottom right edge

Tiled window using Tiling Assistant

A closer look at the bottom right edge

Possible solution

Now I think this can be solved by adding the relevant tiling styles to a tiled window. For example, the above extension gets the tiled-top, tiled-left and "tiled-bottom` classes.

Here are the relevant styles in libadwaita,

It would be nice if Tiling Assistant could add these styles too.

[3v1n0]

This is something that can't be handled at extension level without upstream support.

A change like #239 can help in the two-tiles cases, but it won't in other cases.
To support this in Ubuntu we introduced two patches:

• Mutter: https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/mutter/-/blob/ubuntu/master/debian/patches/ubuntu/window-Add-ability-to-override-the-edge-constraints.patch
• This extension: https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/shell-extensions/gnome-shell-extension-tiling-assistant/-/blob/ubuntu/main/debian/patches/ubuntu/tilingWindowManager-Override-window-constraints-style.patch

They're both pretty small and the mutter one can probably be reworked to be merged upstream, but it's something we have to discuss still.

[3v1n0]

And they look as expected indeed:

[MagnusL3D-code]

Just wanted to come here and +1 to this since I was just about to create the same issue :)

[skewty]

making the corners squared would solve #222

[tclementdev]

Was about to file the same issue, I see it's been two years now. Any chance we can file an official request/patch for Mutter?

@3v1n0 do you know if this request was made already?

[tclementdev]

I went ahead and filed this: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/work_items/4466