Port to ElementaryOS

[murbanowicz]

Thanks for great tool.
Do you think you could port it to ElementaryOS somehow?

[scherepanov]

ElementaryOS is quite different beast, no full-fledged gnome-shell. It looks by far more for complete rewrite, then port.
Also, current code structure is bad. At least gTile have to be 100% rewritten in TypeScript. Then, at least in theory it is possible to talk about some kind of port.
Anyway, I am way too busy and cannot get even little time to implement some ideas/bug fixes in current codebase. That is the largest problem.

[murbanowicz]

Do you need help with TypeScript?

[scherepanov]

Yes, gTile need to be moved to TypeScript.
There is almost working port to TypeScript, if you can complete it would be of a huge help.
It is #93
If you can join efforts with @JMurph2015 and complete it, would be a huge deal.

[scherepanov]

After reading about Elementary OS, I have an impression that very few changes needed to have gTile working there.
May be we should consider port to Elementary OS in a future.
Will return to this topic after finishing rewriting in typescript.

[murbanowicz]

Oh! Great! I have already left the message on the TS migration with asking for branch etc. I will try to help!

[murbanowicz]

Hi!
Any plans for doing that? It did sound promising, but looks like you didn't/don't have time for that?

[scherepanov]

Sorry, had no time to actually do anything.
Your fate is in your hands. Create port, submit PR, or make your own repo.

[JMurph2015]

Hi @murbanowicz! I've been pretty busy with some personal life stuff recently so the full rewrite port to TS has been on hold, but recently the project has been incrementally converting files to Typescript it seems, so it may be possible when more of that refactoring is done. However since this is a all-volunteer project, the best way to ensure something happens is to pitch in.

[scherepanov]

Port to TS pretty much done.
Now, feel free to port to Elementary OS!

[JMurph2015]

Just while we're on the topic, the reason I say mostly is because my biggest blocker on making a Cinnamon port was that we would need to abstract out a settings interface, and one of the few JS holdouts is the the settings.js file.

The long term dream I had for being able to support Cinnamon and the like was to refactor GTile into a) core logic (grids, autotiling, generic idea of resizing a window) and b) desktop specific action interfaces (settings, hotkeys, resizing windows, etc) so that we could just implement a new DE handler for some of these popular Gnome derivative desktops. However, that would require quite an ambitious undertaking of restructuring the extension into more modular components like what was done with the TileSpec class.

[scherepanov]

Sweet dreams...