The Mac and the iPad aren’t meeting in the middle yet micro.coyotetracks.org
@chipotle Your mention of looking for "tiling window managers designed for humans" reminds me of System76's efforts to bring a more friendly TWM to their derivative, Pop!_OS: https://github.com/pop-os/shell#pop-shell
I'm not saying this has the same research or focus that Apple would apply to their solution (especially since iPadOS is, well, a tablet OS, the keyboard is an addon), I'm just curious if you've looked at it.
@digitalfox I've heard of it, but haven't looked at it yet. I know "for humans" is a little cheeky, but the most vocal fans of tiling WMs seem to have a near-religious aversion to using pointing devices and a faint suspicion of GUIs in general. :) Since iPad Pros can drive external monitors, though, they're in dire need of OS-level support for it they just don't have now, and tiling feels like the most natural progression.
@chipotle @digitalfox What baffles me is there are already apps that can do full screen, full res on external displays. Why can’t the OS do it?
@pimoore @digitalfox I suspect it's Apple trying to figure out window management; you want to be able to display more than two applications at once, but you probably don't want a Mac-style overlapping window manager. I suspect that they're working on a major UI change for iPadOS 15, which is why the changes in iOS 14's home screen never really made it over to the iPad. But we'll see in a couple months…
@chipotle @digitalfox That’s a really interesting thought about why they haven’t ported over those home screen changes yet, I simply concluded it was an oversight. Let’s hope you’re right and exciting changes are in the horizon.