Re: [dwm] placement of tags on titles

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:59:56 +0200 "Anselm R. Garbe" <arg_AT_10kloc.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 08:53:43AM -0400, Ross Mohn wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 14:14 +0200, Anselm R. Garbe 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.
> > Do you mean to swap the position of the tags and status text? Sounds
> > like a good possibility...
>
> No, not swapping, but like this shot presents:
>
> http://10kloc.org/shots/dwm-20060823.png
>
> In the right of the status bar client's title you see all tags
> of the focused client, in the left you see all available tags.

Well, I liked the argument of having a fixed rightmost position
for the title in the upper right corner and the tags left of it.
Now you broke this fixed position, clobber the status bar with
ambiguous additional tag labels on the right and yet it is not
consistent with the in-window title-bars because in the status
the title is left-aligned and the associated tags are to the far
right while in the windows everything is right-aligned.
I don't have another good idea, but I sure don't like this one.

Generally, the contents in the status bar are not well separated
from each other. It's not very obvious which things belong
together and which not, it's just a series of text with alternating
colors. At least there should be some spacing to group the three
blocks: tag selectors / window title and tags / info. Maybe just
center the middle block or give them different color schemes.

Regards,
Stefan

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