Stefan Tibus wrote: > On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 10:45:18AM -0400, Doug Bell wrote: > > This got me thinking that you could do something similar for the number > > of columns in a tag. A tag-capacity setting of 1 would behave like > > wmii-3, placing new clients as a new row in the current column. A > > setting of 2 would place a new client in a new column if there was only > > a single existing column. And 3 or more would, of course, create new > > columns for clients until the set number of columns are reached. > > Hmm...not my thing. And I have to say this makes things as less dynamic > as the manual creation of empty columns which has been voted against in > the past. There is no good algorithm to generally tell whether to create > a new column for a new client or not. I may like to use this behaviour > in one view but not in another, so I'd have to set this flag for my > often-used views upon start-up of wmii and then I think we're somewhere > in the area of predefining layouts which AFAIK is not wanted...
Allow me to defend my idea a bit - then, if nobody likes it I'll shut up :) I think this number-of-columns flag would be most useful as a global default in wmiirc. So it wouldn't be similar to layouts. You say this would make things "less dynamic"? So _manually_ moving the second client to a new column each time (at high resolution, the full screen with is rarely useful for a client) is somehow more dynamic? Dynamic should mean doing the right thing most of the time without user intervention. And dynamic should not preclude the use of some global user-preferences to achieve that. Keep in mind that this isn't really a mode (unlike the default/stacked/max modes, which, if you want to talk about less dynamic...). If this flag causes a new column to be created when you didn't want it, you just move the client back. It's just easier to _usually_ get what you want. Finally, what's the harm in allowing a choice? If you like the current behavior, set this flag to 1. If you run high resolution and/or liked the old tiled behavior, a setting of 2 gets a little closer to the ideal. Doug. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
