Re: [dwm] placement of tags on titles

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 09:26:31AM +0200, Sander van Dijk wrote:
> On 8/25/06, Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_10kloc.org> wrote:
> >I thought a while about colorization issues and found, that the
> >inverting of an existing color set has the advantage, that the
> >inverted color fits well (which is often not the case for yet
> >another color tuple).
> >
> >However, I consider the following idea:
> >
> > 1 text color
> >+ 1 border color
> >+ 1 bg color for selected objects (client borders, client titles, tags)
> >+ 1 bg color for unselected objects (client borders, client titles, tags)
> >+ 1 bg color for status info
> >
> >= 5 colors
> >
> >At the dmenu side:
> >
> > 1 text color
> >+ 1 border color (only used for highlighted item)
> >+ 1 bg color for normal use
> >+ 1 bg color for highlighted item
> >
> >= 4 colors
> >
> >This idea depends on two constraints:
> >1. The border color is used to provide a 1px border between
> > labels, the space between labels should be only 1px (and not 2
> > for adjacent labels).
> >2. The text color is the same everywhere, selection state is
> > indicated through a different background color.
> >3. The color invertation on mode change is removed, one usually
> > notices the floating mode by the gaps of increment handling.
> >
> >What do others think about this idea?
>
> One bordercolor is a good idea, as yesterday's tip clearly showed that
> mixing different bordercolors doesn't work. I'm starting to like the
> idea of different background colors too. Having just one textcolor
> keeps thing simple, but it does put quite a restriction on possible
> colorschemes (i.e. if you have a dark textcolor, all bgcolors must be
> light if you want to keep thing readable). So I'm not sure what to
> think about that yet (though the fact that it keeps things simple does
> appeal to me, and it seems to work for Acme...).

Having a fixed text color forces to make sane color schemes and
keeps the amount of colors small (otherwise we'd have +3-1 more
colors in dwm which can get a pity) - options are bad.

> Removing the color invertation seems ok, as indeed it should usually
> be obvious what mode you're in. Then again, reviving the ~/# indicator
> that dwm once had (pre-0.1 I believe) wouldn't hurt either (I actually
> liked that, it's less prone to wrong interpretation than inverted
> colors. Besides that, it could also be used to allow mousebased mode
> toggling).

Yes, I consider a small box in the left indicating float/tiled mode.

Regards,

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