On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:23:08AM -0500, Yannick Delbecque wrote: > [07-02-12 18:45 -0500, Kris Maglione] > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:05:14PM +0100, Uriel wrote: > > >Did any of you read what I wrote? you don't need rows for any of this. > > >All you need is a resizable managed area. > > > > > >Only issue is that the size of the managed area is probably going to > > >be global across views, but you can't have everything. > > > > That's a cruddy solution to either of the problems. 1. It leaves the > > user managing windows again, instead of the window manager, and 2. It > > means that you have to resize the managed area every time you switch > > views. That's absolutely untenable. The only viable use for the resized > > managed area is for sticky apps and the like. > > I feel the same way about this proposal. I would be happy with a row layout > completely analogous to the column layout. Would it be hard to add an extra > flag > to a view to use the same information but to display clients in rows instead > of > columns? At least navigation concepts wouln't change that way, and nothing > would be > broken with this addition.
I don't understand why people ask for such mixture-layouts (in dwm we had the same discussion already). Actually, I think you only need such mixture layouts, if your screen is too small. So, the real solution for the problem in my eyes is: wether use a floating setup, or buy a bigger screen. Apart from that, I believe that windows in rows scale poorly compared to windows in columns, because in my observation the width of a window is of much more importance than its height. And there's also a reason for this observation - it is text. In western civilizations we usually read line-based (regardless if from left-to-right or vice versa), but text expands into the width. Hence you can easily handle more than 20 windows in a column, but you can hardly handle more than 5 columns at all (this makes windows nearly unusable). So the only decent solution of window arrangement in a IDE-like layout you ask for, is the ion- or wmi-10 way in my eyes. Or you just adapt your usage patterns to column layout (which is doable) and maybe you want to buy a better screen. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
