Re: [dwm] placement of tags on titles

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:47:58PM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 04:23:01PM +0000, David Tweed wrote:
> > Hi, I've been wondering about this for a while: what was the reason for putting the tags
> > at the front of titles? I'm just wondering if there's something I'm not thinking of, since
> > (arrogantly assuming we're working in a language that reads left-to-right and
> > consequently builds up a scan routine that goes left-to-right :-) ) you'd tend to look
> > at the window title more frequently than the tags so `name then tags' seems like a
> > more natural order. (I'm assuming that, like in my experiments with in-window titles
> > in Ion, the window titles are drawn in the upper left of the window because there
> > is the highest probability that they'll be covering empty space -- particularly with
> > program code.)
> >
> > Anyway, just curious,
>
> I'll try it the other way until tomorrow and let you know ;)
>
> Atm. the only reason is that it is more consistent with the
> status bar, but we'll see...

Well, the statusbar is a different subject, I already agree that
the tags should be drawed in the right, it is easier to read in
our culture ;)

Regards,

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