[Bug 2054481] [NEW] Move "enhanced tiling" into Keyboard settings

[Joe-xenotropic]

Public bug reported:

Starting in 23.10, Ubuntu introduced "enhanced tiling", which modifies
the default behavior for Super+Right  so that it does not only moves the
window over to one side, but it also brings up a task-switcher for the
remaining space.

I wanted to turn this off, but did not know what it was called or what
program/library etc. was causing it. It was a change to the behavior of
a keyboard shortcut, so I went to "keyboard shortcuts". There it still
says Super+Right is "view split on right". This not accurate anymore, as
that is only half of what Super+Right does with Enhanced Tiling on.

I had to do like 15 different Google searches before finding this Ask
Ubuntu question

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1494628/how-can-i-disable-the-new-
superarrow-window-screen-aligning-feature

which finally relieved my confusion, told me the name of the behavior,
and allowed me to turn it off in the unexpected "Ubuntu Desktop"
location.

Please somehow make it clear from the keyboard settings that "enhanced
tiling" exists, since it does modify keyboard behavior to be other than
what keyboard settings says it is. You could do this by:

- having "View Split On Left" and "Enhanced Tiling To Left" be two separate actions, and Super+left/right could be assigned to one or the other
- somehow indicate the existence of Enhanced Tiling in the description of the keyboard action, like "View Split on left (see also Enhanced Tiling)" would have at least let me know I needed to search for an "Enhanced Tiling" setting

See also related bug I filed for documenting Enhanced Tiling as part of
keyboard shortcuts in ubuntu-docs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/2054478

** Affects: ubuntu-settings (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Move "enhanced tiling" into Keyboard settings

Status in ubuntu-settings package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Starting in 23.10, Ubuntu introduced "enhanced tiling", which modifies
  the default behavior for Super+Right  so that it does not only moves
  the window over to one side, but it also brings up a task-switcher for
  the remaining space.

  I wanted to turn this off, but did not know what it was called or what
  program/library etc. was causing it. It was a change to the behavior
  of a keyboard shortcut, so I went to "keyboard shortcuts". There it
  still says Super+Right is "view split on right". This not accurate
  anymore, as that is only half of what Super+Right does with Enhanced
  Tiling on.

  I had to do like 15 different Google searches before finding this Ask
  Ubuntu question

  https://askubuntu.com/questions/1494628/how-can-i-disable-the-new-
  superarrow-window-screen-aligning-feature

  which finally relieved my confusion, told me the name of the behavior,
  and allowed me to turn it off in the unexpected "Ubuntu Desktop"
  location.

  Please somehow make it clear from the keyboard settings that "enhanced
  tiling" exists, since it does modify keyboard behavior to be other
  than what keyboard settings says it is. You could do this by:

  - having "View Split On Left" and "Enhanced Tiling To Left" be two separate actions, and Super+left/right could be assigned to one or the other
  - somehow indicate the existence of Enhanced Tiling in the description of the keyboard action, like "View Split on left (see also Enhanced Tiling)" would have at least let me know I needed to search for an "Enhanced Tiling" setting

  See also related bug I filed for documenting Enhanced Tiling as part
  of keyboard shortcuts in ubuntu-docs
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/2054478

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