Hello all. I like Jani's ideas (though I have no idea how difficult it is to implement them), especially: - creation of empty frames: Creating an empty frame that may be selected and a new client is automatically attached to that frame, seems more natural to me. - stacking of frames: Remembers me of larswm's way to handle managed and floating windows. Sometimes I found myself of having a floating window in front of managed ones and clicking on the latter doesn't rise them. This is unexpected and there's need to switch at least between a managed and an unmanaged layer. Jani extends this to multiple stackable layers or frames. Wether or not it is useful to handle floating windows as managed windows without boundary conditions I'm not sure. One would a have a lot of empty (but selectable?) frames. - layout: Some questions arise: To what extent shall this layout scheme be scalable? And how to implement the selection movement then? E.g. think of this (weird) layout: ------------------- |1 |2 |5 | | |----| | | |3 | | | |----| | | |4 | | ------------------- |6 |8 | |------| | |7 | | -------------------
((1 ((2 (3 4)) 5) ((6 7) 8)) Other ideas: - resizing: I'm missing resizing features for floating windows only. Larswm has shortcuts to toggle vertical, horizontal and full screen maximization. One can do the maximization with wmii as well, but not switch back to the normal size afterwards. - tiling: I liked larswm's tiling mode a lot. Have your focused window in the largest/main frame and stack others away. If resizing of the other frames is disabled even terminals keep there full content when moving them to the main frame again. Are there other ways to achieve this? - mouse focus: Make the sloppy focus configurable. Regards, Stefan _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
