On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 02:47:28PM +0200, Jan Christoph Ebersbach wrote: > On Sun 18-05-2008 12:42 +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:07:37PM +0200, Jan Christoph Ebersbach > > wrote: > > > The floating layout is totally useless when it comes to mouseless > > > usage and even with the mouse there is no window manager that > > > provides such weak functionality to manage floating windows. > > > > I disagree. I think the floating mode is as usable as in traditional > > WMs -- which functionality are you missing? > > Pancake guessed right, I was talking about maximizing, moving and > resizing windows. It would also be nice to have an arrange and/or an > overview like the one MacOS provides.
Curious you ask for the Mac OS exposé thing. I was observing that setting a non-floating layout and selecting all tags essentially gives you this. I think what would make it perfect would be the "grid-mode" layout from a while ago (I don't know if it still works) so that you don't have one huge master window and a bunch of very short (or skinny) windows in the tile area. But (and this is somewhat of a problem with automatic tiling in general) it can be hard to distinguish windows when the geometric information (width, height) is removed. I think having everything in a grid would still be kind of nice. -John
