feat: auto-tile

[Dreaming-Codes]

Hyprland recently got scrolling layout so niri should get auto tiling

[HigherOrderLogic]

This goes against Niri's design principle.

And Hyprland shouldnt have any effect on what Niri should does and what features it should have.

[bluelinden]

This goes against Niri's design principle.

And Hyprland shouldnt have any effect on what Niri should does and what features it should have.

correct, while the implementation for this looks largely fine (and is less code than i was expecting) it is better suited for a downstream fork. the specific principle this breaks is the idea that a window's horizontal size will never affect another window's horizontal size.

we really do appreciate the effort though! thanks for the contribution, even if it doesn't fit with the project's goals.

[y0usaf]

Is there a world where a feature like this could be welcome if it weren't a default, or are the design principles strict regarding configurable implementations too?

[witchlliee]

Is there a world where a feature like this could be welcome if it weren't a default, or are the design principles strict regarding configurable implementations too?

Maybe a script like auto-tiling script for Sway would be welcome. But i don't see this happening on the main project.

[Atan-D-RP4]

It is already possible to do this via script. The niri-tweaks repo listed in awesome-niri has a script called tile_to_n that does exactly this via the IPC.