ext Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
Sounds pretty much like the static Ion-way of managing windows
with some ideas we already dropped in wmii-1. The new layout
interface of upcoming wmii-3 would allow to implement most of
your idea, except the page concept. In general I agree with the
philosophy of http://www.wmii.de/index.php/WMII/DynamicWM.
I did not intent it to be so much about management of the windows, but
about their grouping.
The tabbing concept at all is questionable now, at least in
column layout, because we got pages, which provides a much saner
way for dynamically arranging frames and accessing them in a
simple way. Tabbing always needs an additional key-binding to
cycle through, because it is an additional layer. And this makes
the concept somewhat clunky.
I am not entirely sure I follow, but we'll see.
Anyway, the internal structure of
Frame allows empty frames as well as arbitrary clients attached
to a frame. Thus it is a below 500 LOC issue to implement your
layout and test it. Feel free to contribute, but not before
wmii-3 release (otherwise you would stick to the already
obsolete layout interface in wmii-2.x).
Wmii is a bloody fast moving target!
The floating environment I would replace with the possibility of
stacking frames on the same page. That is, a floating window is only a
single occupied frame surrounded by empty ones in its own frame
covering the whole screen.
Stacking floating clients won't work, because there are plenty
apps who don't conform to ICCCM and accept each size the WM
provides them,
I was thinking that such evil applications which will not listen to
reason would reside in a surroundings that do and which would in turn
try to conform to the whimses of the evil one, but this is difficult I
admit. Damn those transgressors!
A client could be associated with multiple frames. I could have a
system monitoring open on one window that is present in all other
pages except on the page where I have a graphical design software
running, which requires the whole screen.
That is theoretically possible, but won't work well, because
technically you have to reparent clients with the associated
frame, and a window can only have one associated parent window.
Hm, that would have been cool though.
Jani
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