I pushed my new tile() implementation into hg tip. Please recheck if it sucks or if it rules and let me know.
--Anselm On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:59:17PM +0200, Giorgio Lando wrote: > > The ratio will replace the current masterw stuff, and of course, > > ratio==1 means equally tiled windows. > > It is quite a radical change: till now, in a view there was a master > client (presumably, the client where you are working and acting) or more > than one (according to the number of clients in master) and an > undefined quantity of other clients (something you want to check, to compare > or > to have ready to work on in the immediate future). > > On the contrary, now there is a hierarchy (a first client, a second > client, a third client and potentially so on). The idea is that there is > a client you care more than any other, a second client in your hierarchy > of attention, a third and so on. > > Although this second idea is fascinating, I can not imagine any > plausible working scenario for it. Generally speaking, I have almost > always a method to decide the main client where to work, but all the > others are upon a par: if I would be forced to distinguish a second from > a third, a third from a fourth, I would not know how to motivate this > hierarchy. > > Moreover, the number of readable clients in a view is going to lessen: > with a master client and four other clients, all of them are usable and > readable for most applications. On the contrary, I envisage that the > fifth client in a view with the new ratio system will be really small > and pretty unusable also in my 1280x800 widescreen. > > Fixing the ratio to 1 will not restore the old behaviour, > because in this way the master client will be occupying only half of the > screen, while now the MASTERWIDTH can be configured (I have 650). > > Obviously, these suspicions must be verified in the actual > implementation. But I really think that I will be forced to patch dwm to > restore the old behaviour. > > Regards > Giorgio Lando > -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
