Re: [dwm] dwm Digest, Vol 22, Issue 5

[John Grahor]

I really like this, though I seem to be in a minority.

Also looks like you need way more "state" to implement this.

I wonder, Anselm, if you looked at my "optimal" tile patch.  It adds
more rows and columns as needed, is fairly simple, and doesn't require
more state.

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Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 16:11:54 +0200
From: "Anselm R. Garbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [dwm] A rather radical thought
To: dwm@suckless.org
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Here is what I have exactly in mind from a user perspective:

Initially there is 1 column, a new client is inserted below the
currently selected window in the column, similiar to the stack
in tiled layout.

Each window can be moved left- or rightwards (Mod1-Shift-{h,l})
which may result in a new column if there is none.  A
new column gets half the size of the current column.

Each window can also be moved up- or downwards in the column
itself (Mod1-Shift-{j,k}).

Columns can be grown/shrinked using Mod1-Control-{h,l}.
Windows can be grown/shrinked using Mod1-Control-{j,k}.

The navigation is rather straight-forward:

Focussing the previous/next window in the current column is done
with Mod1-{j,k}, focussing the previous/next column is done with
Mod1-{h,l}.

So the whole layout concept consists of basically 4 keys with 3
kinds of modifiers.

Kind regards,
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Re: [dwm] A rather radical thought

[John Grahor]

I never display multiple tags at a time.  The idea, though very elegant,
doesn't work for me.  I usually work by adding terminals, etc to a
single tag until there are too many to be useful then throw one or more
over to another tag and keep going.

For me a column layout would be appealing, although if you aren't going
to support column modes, I don't see how it would be much different than
the htile layout.

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Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 14:59:24 +0200
From: "Anselm R. Garbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [dwm] A rather radical thought
To: dwm@suckless.org
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What about getting rid of supporting the selection of multiple
tags at a time and celebrating the revival of the column layout
of wmii again in dwm 5.0? What about getting rid of all the tiled
layout flavors in favor for the column layout?

Kind regards,
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