Re: [dwm] Taglayouts poll

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:30:13PM +0000, Chris Webb wrote:
> Kai Grossjohann <kai_AT_emptydomain.de> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 05:09:06PM +0100, Chris Webb wrote:
> >
> > > One completely different approach to implementing multiple layouts in a
> > > pure tagging context is to introduce a new layout index, completely
> > > independent of the tag toggles. In the same way you can view() or
> > > toggleview() a tag at present, you could select() by index a particular
> > > set of layout parameters. You'd need to display the selected layout as
> > > well as the selected tags in the status bar, or it would rapidly become
> > > very confusing. This would be interesting to try and I confess I haven't
> > > tried it. However, I suspect in my normal usage it would just replace one
> > > keystroke with two.
> >
> > I think you can have one key execute two actions, by adding two lines
> > for the same key into the keybindings.
> >
> > Then folks who like it can bind keys that do view() followed by
> > select().
>
> While we're examining the solution space, I'll point out that it's a
> small step from doing this sort of layout indexing to completely
> replacing the single workspace with multiple workspaces. Windows would
> belong to tags as in standard dwm, each workspace having a set of
> selected tags (not necessary disjoint) as well as their own independent
> layout and parameters. Finally, a status bar of the form
>
> WORKSPACES LAYOUT TAGS TITLE MESSAGE
>
> would be needed, rather than dwm's
>
> TAGS LAYOUT TITLE MESSAGE
>
> One might then switch between different workspaces for different jobs,
> and mix in and out tags full of windows within a particular job.
>
> Initialisation is an issue here: what tags are present in each workspace
> at startup? Just the first tag in each? Just tag i % k in workspace i?
> There's no canonical choice as far as I can see, which is untidy.

I think that would make dwm more complicated, hence I won't do
that if I were you ;)

Regards,

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