[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > No the difference is, that they draw their content on their own. wmii > has nothing todo with them. wmii shold only place them in a way which > seems adequate. And this can only be a vertical bar on the right side, > which gets opened automatically whenever such a broken app appears.
I've been watching this thread with some interest. I've been using ion3 since it was released, and I only recently discovered wmii. Yesterday I tried out the welcome tours of both wmii-2 and wmii-3, and I must say I'm really impressed. The only reason I didn't switch immediately is the (lack of) handling wm-style dockapps. I think your suggestion of putting dockapps in a vertical bar on the right is a good one. Another way to handle this is what ion3 does using what it calls an "embedded dock". In fact, this is one of the few places where ion3 does dynamic window management the way wmii does everywhere. If a dock is placed along one edge of the screen, the longer dimension is aware of any splits, and only takes up as much space as is needed. Here's a snapshot of my desktop for example: http://gehennom.net/~lunz/embedded_dock.png Notice how the dock area is limited, and the terminal gets full screen height. I think this would translate quite well to wmii-3's column layout. A dock could be like any other client in a column, except with "gravity" that would keep it fixed at the bottom (or top), and it would have a fixed height. One might also choose to keep it visible even in the "maximum" and "stacked" layouts, I don't know. Notice also how I've got the gnome panel captured in the dock -- making this possible would neatly sidestep any need for wmii to handle these gnome/kde applets directly. Instead, users wanting those toys can just run their desktop's "panel" app, and let it worry about all the details. For this to work, though, it's fairly important that horizontal docks be permitted, since many applets use text and there isn't enough horizontal space in a vertical panel for it. Jason _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
