Re: [dwm] maximize problem

On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 01:20:47PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:13:42AM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:04:24AM +0100, pancake wrote:
> > > I find quite anoying the maximize command. Because allows you to
> > > hide windows to the user. I don't know if the right solution for this
> > > would be to make maximize act as monocle, or avoid changing the
> > > focus of the maximized client for the current tag, or making the
> > > maximized flag be inheritable for the following created/switched
> > > clients.
> > >
> > > You can achieve this problem by:
> > > - open two windows
> > > - maximize()
> > > - nextclient()
> > > (focused client is hidden for the user)
> >
> > I noticed the same, but this only happens because floating
> > clients are kept always on top, which is good -- and all other
> > clients are tiled somehow.
> >
> > This would happen with any manually maximized floating as well,
> > so I see no real good solution for this. What do others think?
>
> I think it might make some sense to simplify the whole
> maximization concept, there are certain conditials in the
> current implementation. I believe having an unrevertable
> maximize-function for floating clients only is totally ok, since
> we have togglefloating() in the code. If someone really needs to
> maximize a tiled client, toggle it floating and maximize it. If
> you want to undo this, togglefloating() again. Assume this
> change happen until 4.8.

Btw. the change has happened already in hg tip.

Regards,

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