Re: [dev] [wmii] colrules percentages?

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 06:48:58PM +0300, Nikhilesh S wrote:
>How do the colrules percentages work? Does each number
>represent the percentage of column n as a fraction of the width
>of the whole screen, or of the last selected column before it
>was created, or ... ?
>
>I ask because I was messing with colrules for GIMP for a while
>but I wasn't able to get it working the way I wanted it.
>
>I want to make it look like this (which I set up by manually
>resizing the columns with Mod-RMB):-
>
>http://i.imgur.com/7n47q.png
>
>I took a screenshot of that setup, got the pixel widths of each
>column and put in the numbers as pix_width_n/pix_width_screen *
>100 for each in the colrules but it still didn't come out right
>(the leftmost one was too small, rightmost too big).
>
>Thanks for your help! :-)

Sorry, this got lost in the noise. It depends on which version
you're using. The percentage is always a percentage of the
entire screen width. Assume we have a rule: 10+60+20. Before
3.9, the behavior was, when a new column is created it is given
the width of the nth element in the rule. So, when there is one
column, the next column you create gets 60% of the screen width.
When there are two, the next you create gets 20% and all other
columns shrink to 80% of their previous widths. In 3.9 (I
believe), the new width depends on the location of the new
column rather than the total numbers of columns.

I suspect that your difficulty is in the shrinking of all other
columns when a new one is created. I intend to fix this in 3.10
(where you can already specify a column width in pixels rather
than as a percentage of the screen), but I haven't decided on
the exact semantics yet.

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