Re: [dwm] view all again (Was: cycling tags, again)

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 13:59 +0100, Frank Boehme wrote:
> David Tweed wrote:
>
> > > What about functions for viewing the previous/next tags for all tags
> > > currently selected?
> [snip]
>
> > | I think that's kind of arbitrary;
> [snip]
>
> > For those people who haven't read through the large numbers of clients
> > patch, it includes some functions for one kind of workflow I've got into
> > with dwm.
> [snip]
>
> Ok, it seems to me that users (including myself) want some possibility
> of walking/iterating/viewing through all clients. David's patch adresses
> that but it is meant for situations where a really larger number of
> clients is open. I feel that the average user wants something simpler
> which could go into the main branch.
>
> I'd opt to put something like Anselm's "view all" toggle function into
> the main branch. here is the relevant msg:
> http://wmii.de/pipermail/dwm/2006-August/000539.html
>
> Do ppl feel that this would bloat the code?

I'm absolutely in favor of including Anselm's elegant view all toggle
function. I've had it mapped to keyboard Mod1_0 and mouse Button2 on the
tag bar all week and it's been very useful. It's philosophically and
pragmatically much better than the cycling suggestions.

-RPM
Received on Thu Aug 31 2006 - 16:18:06 UTC