Comment 60 for bug 878820

I really hope this gets fixed. In many cases a 50/50 split is not the way to go. Half of the screen may be to little space for e.g. a browser window, but is wasted space for e.g. a terminal window. I use a 66/33 split way more often. While I would prefer separated shortcuts for 50/50 and 66/33 (or even something like Divvy), cycling is better than only having 50/50 BY FAR.

I upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04 yesterday, stumbled upon this bug/feature, and then restored 10.04 backups. Going back to resizing windows with the mouse instead of keyboard shortcuts is a step I don't want to take, it's slower by magnitudes. Please restore this functionality, pretty please with sugar on top.

What fixes/workarounds/alternatives are there at the moment? Compiling upstream grid from source? I tried and failed. Switching distribution? I'm not happy about that idea either.