On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 02:05:50PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > See the other mail as well, to summarize, the 'problem' is, that > column allows more or less columns than 2, and the larsWM > concept does not scale well to more than 2 columns without > getting into corner cases as mentioned in the other mail. > On the other hand, your points here are not wrong, if they are > simply based on your impression by larsWM or tiled layout in > 2.5.x. But column layout is rather more flexible (thus complex) > then the 2-track concept.
Btw. an easy proof why exclusive flag (aka locking) does not work well with column layout is easy. Assume you want to create 3 columns. How do you do that with implicit column creation? - run a terminal - set column exclusive (might be the default on a new page) - run a second terminal (this is attached to a newly created column) - set column exclusive (ok, we got two adjacent exclusive columns) - run a terminal (unclear: what happens if the first column is selected?) at least a third column needs to be created - unset exclusive flag of first column - unset exclusive flag of second column Now compare this with what I'd do instead: - press Alt-n - press Alt-n - press Alt-n What is easier and more predictable? Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
