Exactly. On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 03:03:42PM +0200, Sander van Dijk wrote: > On 4/21/06, Chris Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The fact that I have to remember to add new clients before > > removing the old ones seems very clunky to me > > That is not the way it is: the whole point of dynamic window > management is that 'stuff' exists when you need it, and doesn't exist > when you don't need it. If you close all the clients in a view, you > apparently don't need the view at that moment (there's nothing in it > that you could possibly need, since it's empty). If at some point you > need that view again (which is when there's a client with that tag), > the view is automatically recreated. > > The problem is, I think, that you are trying to use views as > conventional pages, which they aren't. You can't take a look at stuff > that doesn't exist, and therefore when there's no client with tag > 'aap', viewing all clients with tag 'aap' shouldn't be possible, and > that's why views are destroyed when there are no clients in them. > Conceptually, empty views are nonsense, and therefore they should be > in practice too... > > The other approach would be to allow empty stuff (like frames, > columns, and views) to stay around, which is called static > windowmanagement. Ion does this, and it's clunky. > > If you find having to type in the tag again when the view isn't around > cumbersome, add a shortcut to something like > echo -n -e "my\nlist\nof\frequenly\nused\ntags" | wmiimenu > to prevent having to type them in all the time. > > This typing-in annoyance should not be 'fixed' by doing something > that's conceptually completely wrong (empty views don't 'exist', so > the shouldn't be allowed to be viewed either). > > Greetings, Sander. > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
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