(NOT intending to sound negative)Agree with all above.
It sounds like you're still trying to think of tags as workspaces. TAGS != WORKSPACES. Uriel beat that into my head. And, for once, I'm glad he did. By insisting that you need tags listed in a specific order, you're not using them correctly. In fact, listing them alphabetically is the only correct way to use tags - because they are a dynamic set of all existing items... not an ordered list.
They were, while in development, originally mapped to numbers. That, IMHO, was GREAT for development - BAD for philosophy. Too many people have mistaken them as workspaces. First thing anyone coming to WMII should do is to start mapping them to short words. Like you did with dev and web. But at that point, don't think of it as a "dev space" or a "web space" -- but as "a set of all dev windows" or "a set of all web windows". Ordering them left and right only confuses the idiom. (and for the same reasons, I can't stand the "choose next tag" shortcuts that people are requesting.... because it encourages an incorrect view of the environment.... but I love the mappings of first tag to "$MODKEY-1", etc that some wonderful saint posted to the code snippets page - not because of "first" or "second" but because I can count when I look at the bottom left of the screen :)
Is this "wrong" thinking, or shouldn't I be able to choose to "view" multiple tags at the same time? For instance, $MODKEY-t, then type in "email+www" to view everything tagged either email or www? For that matter, maybe I'd want to select "email|www" for the union of those tags and "email&www" for the intersection of those tags.
-RPM
I agree that your workspace names are mangled. But I think that your mental picture of the window manager is just slightly incorrect. I promise I'm not trying to sound negative.
On 6/9/06, Fernando Canizo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
El 09/jun/2006 a las 07:21 -0300, Anselm me decía:
> New (proposal):
>
> [The idea is to remove the column-representation in the fs-hierarchy,
> because this is not used.]
> /tagrules
> /tag/NAME/0 (floating clients) (*)
> /tag/NAME/1 (column 1) (*)
> /tag/NAME/ctl
>
>
> (*) Each tag contains a file pro area (0 == floating area, 1,... == columns), whereas each line looks as follows:
Since you are considering modifying the fs, please take in
consideration my sugestion for tags having an order property, so we
can have ordered tags without having to put numbers in their names or
relaying on strange names.
I want my 'dev' tag to come after my 'web' tag no matter what
abecedary says, and without mangling the names like: '3.web' '4.dev'
/tag/some_name/order
where order takes an integer from 0 to n
If user puts same number on two or more tags, then they get
lexicographically ordered.
Also i like having all the tags in one place, not like wmii-3 stable
release wich has all flying around. I like that 'tag/' dir.
--
Fernando Canizo - http://www.lugmen.org.ar/~conan/
Lo seguía como un mal recuerdo
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