Re: [wmii] Re: layout per tag.

[Bill Puschmann]

Well, but what if someone wants them?
    

Then that someone should /stop/ wanting them. If a method has flaws and
can be easily superseded by another method, it's obviously time to
re-learn.
  

I stand corrected.  What I said is not right.



I do think, however, that it is useful to have some things
pre-populated.  For example, if I always read mail, then I'd like a
"mail" view that is always visible (present?), even when I haven't
started my mail reader yet.

 

But that's exactly the point.  These are not workspaces.  These are "tags currently in use".  Part of the effort of WMII is to rethink a lot of the desktop metaphors that currently exist.  That's also part of the "dynamic" nature of this window manager - it shows you what's currently available and changes as appropriate.

By selecting a tag, you're not saying "Show me the Mail workspace" - you're saying "show me all the windows tagged as 'Mail' on the one and only workspace that I have".

(I don't want this to sound mean, but) Read through the archives of this mailing list.  This was discussed at extreme length in the beginning of 2006.  We went back and forth about how to conceptualize the environment.  And then there was the whole debate about "once you close the last window in a tagset, should the tag be deleted"... I know... because I lost that round :)

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