--- Andrew Diederich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've only just started using ion3 and I'm still
> figuring out how to
> make my work habits fit with it, and vice versa.
> Right now I'm trying
> to figure out why I'd want to use the WFloatWS
> workspace class. It
> looks like the workspace that is closest to what
> folks would be used
> to, but harder to use. What do people use it for?
> The closest thing
> I can come up with is applications like the gimp,
> which spawns quite a
> few child windows.
The basic reason is that whilst 99% of the time tiling
works better, there are 1% of cases where floating
seems to be unavoidable. In particular:
1 Applications like gimp where you want to overlap
windows of varying sizes in partial ways.
2 "Broken" applications which either don't re-adjust
themselves properly to being resized by the WM to
something other than their original size, or which
produce so many transient windows that contain
information you need to see at once so that managing
them in a frame is difficult.
3 Sometimes you want to have a colleague show you/you
show them something about an application and it's just
less hassle to do it in a framework they're familiar
with.
Basically, I almost never need them, but when I do I
really need them.
HTH,
cheers, dave
> Also, thanks to Brett Parker for the
> statusd_maildir.lua script. I
> just dropped it in my ~/.ion3 directory, added a
> line to my
> cfg_statusbar.lua file, and it worked.
>
> In cfg_statusbar.lua:
> mod_statusbar.create{
> -- First screen, bottom left corner
> screen=0,
> pos='bl',
> fullsize=false,
>
> template="[ %date || load:% %>load || mail:%
> %>maildir_INBOX_new/%>maildir_INBOX_total ]",
> }
>
> --
> andrewdied
>
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