Re: Bar going away? (was: Re: [wmii] Re: wmii-4 fs proposal/discussion)

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 10:55:58AM +0200, Stefan Tibus wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:03:45AM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 03:50:09PM +0200, Uriel wrote:
> > > On 6/12/06, Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam_AT_wmii.de> wrote:
> > > >On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 03:26:56AM +0200, Uriel wrote:
> > > >> What is needed is a way to 1) resize the managed area(across all
> > > >> views?) 2) make floating clients 'sticky' (ie., stay in place across
> > > >> views); neither seems particularly hard once wmii internals are
> > > >> cleaned up.
> > > >
> > > >1) Agreed.
> > > >2) Is already there through tagging, thus nothing new.
> > >
> > > Wrong, that is not what i meant, sticky-floating clients should appear
> > > in all views always in the same position (and they should show up in
> > > all views even if the tag for the new view did not exist when the
> > > client was started). Basically sticky clients are in an extra layer on
> > > top of views that is always visible.
> Didn't a "*" tag exist, showing up a such tagged client in all views?

sticky is something different, because the client appears in all
views with the same geometry. The * tag has been removed because
it had several corner cases which sucked somewhat, and on the
other hand it seems not to be of great use at all... see the
archives for details.

> > You mean something like the OSX widgets layer or the ion3
> > scratchpad layer? That might be worth considering (esp. for
> > external dockbar apps). We need in any case the possibility to
> > define the width (at least) of the managed layer relatively that
> > such an sticky layer would make any sense.
> ...and here I'm back with the idea to define the managed area
> globally and per view via the fs as in older versions. What's
> the problem with doing so? Combining this with that "*" tag
> should suffice.
> I wouldn't like defining just a width, if anything then I'd like
> to define position, width and height.

The question is if this is really necessary. Isn't having
unmanaged space on the right screen border sufficient?

Regards,

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