Re: [dwm] Interesting idea by Gottox

From: Enno \ <gottox_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:25:24 +0100

Hi!

> Allowing windows to exist without any tags at all seems like a bad
> idea to me. In what view should they appear? All or none?
The idea is to tag them to the selected tag, when the user views a tag again.

As I said before, dwm without view() is a bad idea. I don't see
anything wrong when it's possible to view no tag.

2006/11/30, Sander van Dijk <a.h.vandijk_AT_gmail.com>:
> On 11/30/06, Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:
> > Here we go. Gottox proposed to get rid of view(), and letting
> > toggleview() do the work instead. This can be achieved through
> > allowing that no tag is viewed. This results in the side-effect
> > that during toggleview() clients with no tags at all (which
> > appeared during the time when no tag was viewed and which
> > haven't been matched with any rule) have to be tagged with the
> > new tag.
>
> Allowing windows to exist without any tags at all seems like a bad
> idea to me. In what view should they appear? All or none? Both seem
> wrong, and just tagging them with the first tag that is viewed after
> they appeared isn't really clean either. Besides, the ability to
> select just one tag for viewing is probably the quickest way to
> "restructure" your view from scratch, I'd realy miss that.
>
> Greetings, Sander.
>
>

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