[Feature] Horizontal stacking inside vertical stacking

[TotoShampoin]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I like the convenience of scrolling between windows, and I also like to have multiple windows on screen. Two great features allow me to do so: Squeezing and stacking, to have this:

─┐┌──────────┐┌─────┐┌─
 ││          ││     ││ 
 ││          ││     ││ 
 ││          │└─────┘│ 
 ││          │┌─────┐│ 
 ││          ││     ││ 
 ││          ││     ││ 
─┘└──────────┘└─────┘└─

But sometimes, I want to lay my windows out like this:

───┐┌─────────────┐┌───
   ││             ││   
   ││             ││   
   │└─────────────┘│   
   │┌──────┐┌─────┐│   
   ││      ││     ││   
   ││      ││     ││   
───┘└──────┘└─────┘└───

And as far as I am aware, this isn't possible?

Describe the solution you'd like
Basically the above;
In terms of UX, it would be shortcuts to "Move window left/right within stack".
Functionally speaking, I get that it'd be complicated, considering there's this stack to focsed toggle... But this feature would be great

Describe alternatives you've considered
None, tbh 😅
Without such feature, I am forced to turn the wide window into a tall window, which might not be ideal in some use cases.

Additional context
Some (oddly specific) example use cases:

• A terminal/log where the messages can be lengthy but having a narrower view on the entries can make it easier to read
• Editting a script with many similar lines that you can multi-cursor through easily, such that breaking then down would be less convenient, and you don't want to scroll horizontall inside your code editor
• Testing a app in landscape while editting the code and an image and seeing the changes live

[gleyconJ]

“Agreed! I’d also love to see this feature running at full steam. It would massively improve my workflow!”

[gleyconJ]

It would be great if Karousel could let you anchor floating windows on top of a larger background window so that when Karousel slides left or right those floating windows move with it. The background window would act like a movable “monitor fence” attached to the other Karousel windows. You can see a similar behavior in Bottles when an app is configured to run inside a Windows window.

My paint drawing is an attempt to explain what I mean.

Imagine Dolphin, Kate and a Calculator open on top of that invisible window, with a transparent Qt background.

[gleyconJ]

When Karousel is installed it creates a launcher in Utilities; clicking that launcher opens this special window. You would add other windows to it the same way you stack windows normally. But if you stack an app on top of the invisible background window (whether it uses blur, a solid color, transparency, etc.), that app becomes a floating window anchored to the background. In other words, the stacked app detaches into a floating, anchored mode tied to the invisible container.

[gleyconJ]

This feature would let uniquely sized applications avoid Karousel’s tiling constraints while still being part of the carousel. Instead of being forced into tiles, those apps would behave as regular windows (resizable, movable, focusable) but be anchored to the Karousel flow. In practice, they’d remain windowed applications that move with the carousel rather than being re-tiled.

Paired with the suggestions already raised in that issue, this change would push Karousel well ahead in terms of usability and interaction design—arguably a decade forward compared to current desktop paradigms.

[this-username-system-sucks-ass]

When Karousel is installed it creates a launcher in Utilities; clicking that launcher opens this special window. You would add other windows to it the same way you stack windows normally. But if you stack an app on top of the invisible background window (whether it uses blur, a solid color, transparency, etc.), that app becomes a floating window anchored to the background. In other words, the stacked app detaches into a floating, anchored mode tied to the invisible container.

I think that might be a bit far out of the scope of the original request, but it seems useful (if awkward to implement). definitely worth it's own request.

[this-username-system-sucks-ass]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I like the convenience of scrolling between windows, and I also like to have multiple windows on screen. Two great features allow me to do so: Squeezing and stacking, to have this:

─┐┌──────────┐┌─────┐┌─
 ││          ││     ││ 
 ││          ││     ││ 
 ││          │└─────┘│ 
 ││          │┌─────┐│ 
 ││          ││     ││ 
 ││          ││     ││ 
─┘└──────────┘└─────┘└─

But sometimes, I want to lay my windows out like this:

───┐┌─────────────┐┌───
   ││             ││   
   ││             ││   
   │└─────────────┘│   
   │┌──────┐┌─────┐│   
   ││      ││     ││   
   ││      ││     ││   
───┘└──────┘└─────┘└───

And as far as I am aware, this isn't possible?

Describe the solution you'd like Basically the above; In terms of UX, it would be shortcuts to "Move window left/right within stack". Functionally speaking, I get that it'd be complicated, considering there's this stack to focsed toggle... But this feature would be great

Describe alternatives you've considered None, tbh 😅 Without such feature, I am forced to turn the wide window into a tall window, which might not be ideal in some use cases.

Additional context Some (oddly specific) example use cases:

* A terminal/log where the messages can be lengthy but having a narrower view on the entries can make it easier to read

* Editting a script with many similar lines that you can multi-cursor through easily, such that breaking then down would be less convenient, and you don't want to scroll horizontall inside your code editor

* Testing a app in landscape while editting the code and an image and seeing the changes live

I think that would be good, and I;m pretty sure it's impossible to do right now. I like karousel a lot but layouts like that are something i miss from krohnkite.

[TotoShampoin]

@gleyconJ I do like that idea, but I think it deserves its own request page. Also, I got 4 emails for your 4 messages 😅

And @this-username-system-sucks-ass yeah, I can see why it'd be impossible to do with the software as is... But well, putting the demand out there is a start for moving things forward