On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 02:58:27PM +0200, Konstantin Kletschke wrote: > Am 2006-04-11 22:30 +1000 schrieb Adrian Ratnapala: > > > because it actually involves a lot more manual-layout than 2.5. > > I am running wmii-200604x1 a couple of hours now. I run 2.5.2 before. I > also have the strange feeling the new approach is a bit weird. > > Many things have to be fixed manually and the dynamic in managing > windows have been gone completely. > > Getting firefox exclusively into a new, clean view is a mess for > example. > > OTOH the deloper and the community must have had something in mind > which makes wmii-3 the successor above wmii-2.5.2. > > We did not found that yet ;-)
Maybe. I used 2.5.2 recently and found it less dynamic. The reason of your impression might be, that you think in a way which is dominated by larswm(aka tiled)-layout. Actually I use swapping VERY seldom in column layout. I use moving clients between columns more frequently and have opened 2 or 3 columns which are mostly in stacking mode. Thus I usually have two or three master clients, instead of (in my impression) unusably small clients in a typical larswm stack. It is true, that I have to create new columns by request. And it is true as well, that moving clients among columns might destroy a column, this is the case if it is the last client (actually this is the same for tiled layout, but in that layout the tiled stack is created/destroyed automatically). That is the reason for swapping, which never destroys columns. Apart from this it is a question also about how often you rearrange things. With swapping you got the possibility to extend the default swapping mechanism with opposite selections, e.g. you can extend wmiirc as follows: >--->---$MODKEY-Control-h) >--->--->---xwrite /view/sel/sel/ctl swap prev >--->--->---xwrite /view/sel/ctl select next;; >--->---$MODKEY-Control-l) >--->--->---xwrite /view/sel/sel/ctl swap next >--->--->---xwrite /view/sel/ctl select prev;; >--->---$MODKEY-Control-j) >--->--->---xwrite /view/sel/sel/ctl swap down >--->--->---xwrite /view/sel/ctl select up;; >--->---$MODKEY-Control-k) >--->--->---xwrite /view/sel/sel/ctl swap up >--->--->---xwrite /view/sel/ctl select down;; This keeps the focus in the specific position, though the client is swapped accordingly. It is a matter of taste what you might prefer. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
