Re: [dev] number of visible windows?

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:49:42PM -0701, David E. Thiel wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 01:30:50AM +0000, Jacob Todd wrote:
> > Another odd thing I noticed today is that vanilla-dwm changes all of
> > tags
> > layouts if you change the layout on a tag. Seems odd.
>
> It's done that for as long as I've used it. It makes some sense that
> there aren't per-tag layouts, as the logic for viewing multiple tags
> at
> once would be weird.
>
>

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 02:19:58AM -0400, TJ Robotham wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 01:30:50AM +0000, Jacob Todd wrote:
> > Another odd thing I noticed today is that vanilla-dwm changes all of tags
> > layouts if you change the layout on a tag. Seems odd.
>
> That would be because you aren't changing the layout on a tag. Tags don't have
> layouts; you are changing the layout of dwm.
>
> Some of us don't think of tags as distinct workspaces. When I have more than
> one tag active at a time, then that's one "workspace" that I've temporarily
> built out of that combination, not several workspaces coexisting on one screen.
> From this perspective, assigning the layout to dwm makes a lot more sense than
> assigning a layout to each tag.
>
>

Lets pretend each tag can have it's own layout assigned. Lets also say I have
two clients open on tag one; tiled, and, and another on tag two; floating, then
I mod+ctrl+2 and have tag one and two as a distinct workspace, with tag two
inheriting tag one's layout because that's where I executed the toggle from.
What's wrong with that?

-- 
Jake Todd
// If it isn't broke, tweak it!