Re: [dwm] placement of tags on titles

From: Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_10kloc.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:10:22 +0200

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:55:15PM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:47:58PM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 04:23:01PM +0000, David Tweed wrote:
> > > Hi, I've been wondering about this for a while: what was the reason for putting the tags
> > > at the front of titles? I'm just wondering if there's something I'm not thinking of, since
> > > (arrogantly assuming we're working in a language that reads left-to-right and
> > > consequently builds up a scan routine that goes left-to-right :-) ) you'd tend to look
> > > at the window title more frequently than the tags so `name then tags' seems like a
> > > more natural order. (I'm assuming that, like in my experiments with in-window titles
> > > in Ion, the window titles are drawn in the upper left of the window because there
> > > is the highest probability that they'll be covering empty space -- particularly with
> > > program code.)
> > >
> > > Anyway, just curious,
> >
> > I'll try it the other way until tomorrow and let you know ;)
> >
> > Atm. the only reason is that it is more consistent with the
> > status bar, but we'll see...
>
> Well, the statusbar is a different subject, I already agree that
> the tags should be drawed in the right, it is easier to read in
> our culture ;)

After having read the opinions of other people concerning this
issue, I reverted the drawing to tags and then title in hg tip.
I agree with Sander, though I don't care much about either way.

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