Roadmap

Tracking issue: Native KWin tiling: roadmap

The shipped and open lists below are included at build time from the reusable .md fragments (edit src/fragments/shipped.md and open.md — the single source — to keep in sync with GH #124).

Shipped

• MasterStack + Stacked layouts, per-output layout + cycle
• Gaps (between + margins, per-output overrides)
• Floating rules (class / utility / dialog / transient)
• Focus left/right/up/down, toggle-float, promote-to-master, move next/prev, move-to-output
• Drag-to-swap, tiling KCM in System Settings
• Patch split into vendored src + small hooks.patch (#123)
• Desktop/monitor-move autotile + focus-follow; UniqueConnection fix (#126)
• Master ratio + master count: keyboard (Meta+Ctrl+L/H, Meta+Ctrl+./,), persisted, KCM (#117, #115)
• Interactive resize: drag the master/stack divider to set the ratio; other edges snap back (#119)

Open

• #115 Tier 3: per-leaf weights so individual stack windows can be resized
• #126 drop-in-empty: releasing a drag over an empty area should tile into that slot
• #125 Retile / reset command to recover from desync
• #116 More layout engines (Columns, Grid, Spiral, Monocle)
• #118 Directional move/swap of active window
• #120 Smart/dynamic gaps
• #121 Per-app window rules (assign layout / always-tile / pin)

Done (for reference)

• #117 Configurable master window count
• #119 Interactive-resize snap + master-divider drag
• #122 Focus-follows-mouse (KWin built-in FocusPolicy)
• #123 Patch split
• #126 Desktop/monitor-move autotile (drop-in-empty still open)

Key open feature descriptions

• Retile / reset: recover when layout and windows get out of sync
• more layout engines: Columns, Grid, Spiral, Monocle
• smart/dynamic gaps: adapt gap sizes based on context or screen
• per-app window rules: control tiling behavior per application
• directional move/swap: explicit commands in addition to drag
• per-leaf weights: individual sizing inside the stack area

These will be added to this site as they ship.