On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 02:41:29PM -0700, Uriel wrote: > What you described is called "named workspaces", and it *SUCKS*, that is > what ion has(had?), and it totally fucking sucks. The whole point of tags > is that you can attach as many tags as you like to every object, and then > pick your current selection from the list of tags. The whole point is to > have multiple _views_ that are _overlapping_ sets. So that your "code" > view can contain windows that are also running on another host and are > accordingly tagged, as someone pointed out, or that a web browser can be > tagged as "web" and as "documentation", or whatever. > > What is totally retarded is to allow concurrent selection of more than one > current tag at the same time, because it makes the current state much more > confusing, and provides zero extra functionality that can't be archived by > just adding an extra tag to the union of the groups you want to tag.
Indeed, I can think of less practically useful reasons to have multiple single tags viewed at the same time than the ability to attach multiple tags on a single client. I would not be too unhappy about removing the multi-tag-view feature. > The problem I suspect is that you have yet to provide any sane mechanism > to easily tag windows on the fly, so no wonder it is hard to use. As usual > you discard ideas before properly putting them into practice, and make > judgements based on incomplete data and your own braindamaged personal use > patterns. Be fair. Anselm *has* asked the community before he prematurely removed this feature... From the big list of "please keep multiple tags" posts it seems to be just as well ;) ~Chris _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
