On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 09:13:29AM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > My main concern with swapping is, that I never used it regularly. Well...people are different from each other ;-)
> I think people who use swapping frequently are still pretty much > used to the LarsWM- or tiled-layout way of thinking. But I > noticed that one can change the mind and adapt to the move-only > based approach fairly easily. That may well be true. But I don't believe people should adapt to machines/software too much, but the other way round. > Once you are used to > the move-only approach you don't feel the need to swap clients > horizontally anymore (within columns you use and need it in acme > anyways), but not among columns. But in the useful case, where you want your main working window (which is the one you concentrate on) occupy the main part of your screen (fullscreen as long as I don't have to keep track of other things), swapping comes in very handy. It saves you a second keyboard action and it avoids lots of resizings and redrawings. The latter is very very important on older and thus slower machines. (BTW besides them being WIMPy I don't like KDE,GNOME,... and all those others because they eat-up too much CPU-time for useless things - I'd rather use Motif if there weren't larswm and wmii. Unnecessary resizings and redrawings are just as much CPU waste.) > This would simplify the overall concept drastically and contain > a more production-ready mouse-based move. We would get rid of 5 > [...] > beside a bunch of code. Not an argument, if it makes it slower. If somebody uses move only then he's not forced to use them... Regards, Stefan _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
