Re: [dwm] view all again (Was: cycling tags, again)

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 10:18:02AM -0400, Ross Mohn wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 13:59 +0100, Frank Boehme wrote:
> > David Tweed wrote:
> >
> > > > What about functions for viewing the previous/next tags for all tags
> > > > currently selected?
> > [snip]
> >
> > > | I think that's kind of arbitrary;
> > [snip]
> >
> > > For those people who haven't read through the large numbers of clients
> > > patch, it includes some functions for one kind of workflow I've got into
> > > with dwm.
> > [snip]
> >
> > Ok, it seems to me that users (including myself) want some possibility
> > of walking/iterating/viewing through all clients. David's patch adresses
> > that but it is meant for situations where a really larger number of
> > clients is open. I feel that the average user wants something simpler
> > which could go into the main branch.
> >
> > I'd opt to put something like Anselm's "view all" toggle function into
> > the main branch. here is the relevant msg:
> > http://wmii.de/pipermail/dwm/2006-August/000539.html
> >
> > Do ppl feel that this would bloat the code?
>
> I'm absolutely in favor of including Anselm's elegant view all toggle
> function. I've had it mapped to keyboard Mod1_0 and mouse Button2 on the
> tag bar all week and it's been very useful. It's philosophically and
> pragmatically much better than the cycling suggestions.

Well the view all toggle has some conceptually cornercases.
If you view all tags and if you toggleview's on the way, the
view all toggle will be out of sync. That's the reason why I
won't include view all toggle into the mainstream dwm. I really
think that dwm is finished already.

Regards,

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