simple tile improvements

[ammen99]

This PR is aimed at improving simple-tile's behavior.

Goals:

• Allow swapping windows (fixes Allow windows to be swapped in tiling mode #681)
• Allow animations (crossfade) when a view changes its size (fullscreen, or a view is added).
• Fix Improve animations in tiling mode #680
• Add plugin API for simple-tile so that users can make custom plugins which modify the tiling layout
• Fix Master and stack layout for tiling mode #771 by using the tile API to build a simple plugin for setting up master/stack (and fat) layouts

[ammen99]

• Add plugin API for simple-tile so that users can make custom plugins which modify the tiling layout
• Fix Master and stack layout for tiling mode #771 by using the tile API to build a simple plugin for setting up master/stack (and fat) layouts

@Javyre as far as I understand, these things would be eventually available in swayfire, right?

[Javyre]

@Javyre as far as I understand, these things would be eventually available in swayfire, right?

Yup

I intend to expose a public API for swayfire to modify the layout and query the node trees. (This won't come until at least 0.2)
It should also eventually support custom rules for where to place new opened nodes. (I'm still thinking about how best to achieve this)

I'm going to start a lua-wayfire integration experiment soon to see if these custom rules can be implemented by users in lua. That way a master/stack layout can be achieved by setting a custom function to execute for where to place new opened views as well as custom bindings for what to do when you move nodes up/down/left/right.

[ammen99]

@Javyre as far as I understand, these things would be eventually available in swayfire, right?

Yup

I intend to expose a public API for swayfire to modify the layout and query the node trees. (This won't come until at least 0.2)
It should also eventually support custom rules for where to place new opened nodes. (I'm still thinking about how best to achieve this)

I'm going to start a lua-wayfire integration experiment soon to see if these custom rules can be implemented by users in lua. That way a master/stack layout can be achieved by setting a custom function to execute for where to place new opened views as well as custom bindings for what to do when you move nodes up/down/left/right.

Sounds perfect ;)

In this case, I don't think it makes sense for me to duplicate the same functionality in Wayfire.