Michael Raskin <38a93...@rambler.ru> writes:
>>4. I think the support for floats should be dropped initially and re-worked
>>in a
>> different way. If we're going to have floats, I envision being able to
>> toggle windows between being tiled and floating on top of the tiles. In a
>> sense making the float group sit on top of the tiled group and being able
>> to
>> move windows between the two as needed. This would ideally be done
>> automagically for dialog boxes that often are placed in awkward positions
>> when tiled.
>
> If we discuss changing the grup logic, maybe we will end up
> reconsidering the granularity of group choice?
>
> I.e., is it worth supporting per-monitor groups? Is it worth supporting
> multiple «pseudo-monitors» inside a single physical display? What _is_
> a group, what is tied to it (windows has a single group?) and what are
> its immutable characteristics (if we have per-monitor groups, what to do
> with frame splits, if there are any)? Is a floating group always
> entire-workspace? Is a floating group tied to underlying tiling group?
>
> My setup via frame tagging is most close to 4 no-permanent-splits
> «groups» inside a single physical display, and one or four more when
> I attach an external display to my notebook.
>
> Should I describe more details about its usage as a use case or is it
> too weird to consider at the current stage?
>
Hi Michael,
This is a brainstorming thread, so please elaborate an enumerate. I'm not
promising it'll end up in the final result.
More than one request has been made to make groups per physical screen. I quite
like the way Stump does it now, so I (personally) would want to make it possible
to achieve what is already there. For the sake of consistency in our discussion
lets define some terms :
- screen: a virtual space within which frames can be drawn
- head: a physical monitor
- frame: a boundary within which a window is drawn
- group: a list of windows to be drawn in frames
To summarize them a bit, a screen can be drawn across multiple heads. The frame
is a partition of a screen within which a window can be drawn. A group is a
collection of windows that will be drawn across the screen within the frames.
In terms of reasonable vocabulary, the only word that makes sense is frame, ie
the boundary of a window. Groups are what people typically think of as
workspaces, and I always have to look up how stumpwm treats heads vs screens.
An obvious candidate to lower the barrier for entry (and maintenance) would be
to rename these things, calling a head a monitor, a group a workspace, and
either keeping screen or renaming it a canvas.
David
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