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.
Yes, I agree this is more dynamic, but as I believe people have pointed out before, dynamic is not an end in itself, rather we are trying to make the window manager as usable as possible. Predictability is a very important part of such usability, and putting the user on a random tag is not predictable. > The problem is, I think, that you are trying to use views as > conventional pages, which they aren't. Fair enough, I am very probably guilty of this. In fact I will admit that I've only just started tagging clients with meaningful tags rather than the old very workspace-like numbers. > 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. I completely agree that allowing empty frames & columns would be very clunky. The problem is that views occupy a rather different part of my workflow. A view for me usually represents a particular task and getting spat back to a random view often leaves me wondering what I was doing. > 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. Thanks, I'll consider it. There's lots of ideas like this which I should be trying out ;) In any case, from reading the long list of mails, I see you guys have considered the problem while I've been asleep. So, I'll stop complaining now, and let you get on with polising wmii-3. Keep up the great work! ~Chris. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
