Re: [dwm] placement of tags on titles

From: Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_10kloc.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:47:42 +0200

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 02:33:12PM +0200, Sander van Dijk wrote:
> On 8/23/06, Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_10kloc.org> wrote:
> >What about making tags appear in the right of clients titles,
> >even in the status bar? Then it is even obvious to which tags
> >the focused client is related to.
>
> Hm... I'm trying to imagine this now, and I think this could be an
> option. It'll always show a client's information (regardless of
> whether it is focused or not), and does so in a consistent way
> (appearance of clientinfo will be the same on clients as in the
> statusbar). I suggest to give it a go, I'd like to at least test this
> for a couple of days...
> Btw. It might look cleaner (especially in the statusbar) to make the
> title+tags one string/field/block/whatever you'd call it and use "|"
> as a separator in that, rather than putting the title and each tag in
> a separate box (in the statusbar that would look a bit "loud" I think,
> keeping all the clientrelated stuff in one "box" might look cleaner).

That would make expensive double-strcpy's on each draw necessary...
I prefer the way I pushed.

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