Re: [dwm] column layout revival?

From: Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 18:53:45 +0200

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 06:22:11PM +0200, Antoni Grzymala wrote:
> Tako rzecze Alexander Polakov (w e-mailu datowanym 2007-09-04, 20:07):
>
> > > For simplicity reasons I won't like to see any layout modes
> > > (they won't work anyways with decor-less windows).
> > >
> > > So what do you think about this idea?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > --
> > > Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
> >
> > Maybe you can develop it in another branch and only fix bugs (if any) in
> > current branch? I don't need columns and like the ability to view more
> > than one tag.
>
> I second that. I really feel that dwm has reached optimum usability in
> it's current state, at least for widescreen users, can't say for others,
> as I don't get to use dwm on 4:3 displays.
>
> Also I would very strongly vote for including yiyus' viewprevtag patch
> in the current branch. It's just a few lines of code, but very useful
> when working with two alternating tags (or a tagset and a tag) (a most
> common work scenario for me, really).
>
> The bug that would need fixing in this "stable" line is the focus
> stealing problem that reappeared in 4.4.1 (or sometime around), I've
> posted the details of the bug to the list recently.

Well, I think that such a change of dwm might justify to call
the result not dwm, but maybe colwm.

Regards,

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 Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
Received on Tue Sep 04 2007 - 18:53:46 UTC

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