On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 08:27:11PM +0400, Michael wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:04:26PM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > > Well if it is not possible to view several tags at a time, two > > tagall/dropall functions could be considered to apply/drop a certain > > tag to all visible clients for convenience reasons. > > But then after switching to another tag, I would still see those window > windows, > which i marked in previous view, current approach is good because of lacking > such behaviour. > > Let me be more specific, I use this feature when I want mix firefox and OOO, I > just apply for the current view two tags: doc and www, which is very logical. > I don't want to apply doc tag for firefox window every time I need to look for > something in web page, it will require too many actions, and i think it's just > not correct: I want only *view* specific tags, I don't want apply any of them. > > Dwm is excellent manager, it has simple and powerful system of views and tags, > and you want to elliminate one of the degree of freedom in it, please, don't > do > it.
Well the reason I started this discussion was actually to just discuss this idea. We did several times in the past, and always we came to the conclusion that dwm is right already. Though, I see a lot of potential to improve the basic layout algorithm to something which is similiar capable to the wmii column layout. Kind regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
