On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 12:39:29PM +0000, David Tweed wrote: > One of the reasons I ended up trying groups is that > the stuff in each group is just "most commonly > related". So for example, the windows that show output > images and graphs under "experiments" are things that > I often want to look at together when I change the > algorithm & rerun the experiment. Likewise the source > code windows under "classifier" are windows I often > want to look at together when I'm changing the source. > But sometimes I want to view one of the source code > windows in the classifier group along with the windows > visible in the experiments group to try and figure out > which artifact of the code gives those results. > Likewise lots of other cases where I want windows > mixed between groups on screen at once. What's useful > about being able to make all the windows in a group > visible at once is that once I've finished with a > mixed setup I can go back to one of the setups with > just the windows in a given group visible very > quickly. > > As I understand pages, they're designed for a more > long-term division and this sort of thing mixed thing > is more difficult. (Ie, a window can only be on one > page at once, so you those no quick way to > "temporarily" put a window onto a different page, then > put it back where it came from when finished.)
That sounds pretty much like our dynamicWM paradigm (http://www.wmii.de/index.php/WMII/DynamicWM). With the new sendtopage and sendtoarea commands, one can dynamically rearrange windows among pages in one step. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
