[2009-01-10 14:10] Matthias-Christian Ott <[email protected]> > Christian Garbs wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 06:05:35PM -0500, voltaic wrote: > > > > (this might conflict with > > highlighting windows, don't know as I don't use it). > > No, it doesn't conflict with highlighting, because you could highlight > the adjoining borders or introduce a new highlighting indicator.
But problems will arise. Imaging tiling layout with only two clients. Toggeling focus will not change the highlighting, as always the separator between them will be highlighted. >[] foo 11:25 > | > | > | > | > | > | > | > In combination with the sufficient > border concept this would [...] would introduce some > corner cases. I think this would be a reason for most users to reject > this, even if it makes more sense. Simplicity first! Then Clarity! Then Generality! Corner cases do fail with each ... even with clarity. What's the problem with the most simple solution: 1px borders around every client? It's simple, clear, and general. However, I can accept a solution where borders are only separators for tiling clients (= your sufficient border concept). But indication of the active client must then use a different concept, unrelated to the borders/separators. And floating clients should have borders anyway. This would also separatethem clearly from tiled clients. meillo
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