On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 12:55:02PM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > My intention for removing swapping is not the LOC which can be > safed (that is really a marginal aspect). It is the simplicity > of the overall column concept and the usage patterns which are > involved with it. Having a basic and simple move-only based > concept means, that people use it the same way, which is > important for future development, documentation, tutorials, etc. What's the problem with describing swapping in the docs? > Also, if one compares the move-only and swapping usage patterns > to dynamic window management, it seems to me that sticking to a > static number of columns and using swapping most of the time is > less efficient than using as many columns as necessary for a > task and using the clients in the specific position as they > are (or move them if one needs them in a different place). That's a question of window sizes and involved redrawings. Even on a large screen (so it's not screen-size dependent) I'd like to have my main editing window to be the largest and others I just have open to look something up smaller. When I change working file I want to have that one largest. And to have it so, swapping is much easier and faster than some other way to move the client around or change its size... I rarely split up my screen into many equal-sized windows. Or, to tell it in another way: The larswm way very well fits my own way, but larswm is too fixed on that. And stacking and moving is not a good replacement. That's why I like wmii but with swapping. And I just can't see why this great feature should be bad style.
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