Re: [dwm] recent changes

Sorry when I dislike this solution, but it's far to complex. I wished
a solution which is simpler and without splitting tile.

Let me try to build a different idea.
2008/3/7, pancake <pancake_AT_youterm.com>:
>
> My impressions about this commit are:
>
> *) At the beggining I feel a bit confused until fixed the master and slave
> resolutions on a single screen (because xinerama seems to crash my kernel
> and I can't test it in all its glory atm)
>
> *) Using this concept on a single screen looks a bit more claustrofobic
> because of the lack of setmwfact.
>
> - On my 20" screen, the lack of setmwfact doesnt affects to me, but
> using a static mwfact with the proper values for the monocle layout
> is imho much more clear than having a variable one which distracts.
>
> - Dropping the statusbar from the slave area we can play with a bigger
> area (we have some more pixels O:)
>
> * We need a MOBW variable when single window is opened or using monocle layout.
>
> *) I really miss the possibility to link mouse actions on the statusbar :(
> it makes the use much more usable when you have a hand on the keyboard
> and the another one in the mouse, so you don't have to move the pointer
> to zoom, kill or select clients.
>
> I would like to have this patch on mainstream too. I think my current patch
> fits quite well for most uses and doesnt needs to be configurable, maybe
> a little of feedback can help to adopt this functionality, which IMHO
> for larger screen (or multiple ones) much more productive than moving the
> mouse around the clients.
>
> *) I also miss the clients per tag patch O:) but I will probably redesign it
> for dwm 4.8, so we can probably change the concept of CPT to define the
> number of windows to be shown in the master area.. But I understand that
> this is not necessary in mainstream because can be replaced with correct
> use of the tagging concept.
>
> *) My general impression was a bit frustrating at the beggining, but after
> reading some source, playing a bit with the configuration and thinking
> in some solutions I come to the conclusion that I'm pretty happy with
> this new concept.
>
>
> Source comments:
>
>
> * If we change these #defines to integer variables we will be able to write external
> commands to swap master and slave area between two monitors, join both areas, manage
> setmwfact or creating mixed layouts. And everything without touching the core :)
>
> * We will be able to define a master layout, tile layout.
>
> I know that not all layouts will work for all screen configurations, but we can just
> try to handle the most common uses.
>
> * looks like the monocle layout doesnt works as expected so it eats some more screen
> than in should :) and the right/bottom borders are out of screen
>
> * at line 1567 (nice number):
>
> ...
> for(i = 0, c = nexttiled(clients); c; c = nexttiled(c->next), i++)
> if(i > 0) {
> if(i > 1 && i == n) /* remainder */
> ...
>
>
> This nested conditional looks ugly to my eyes, I would prefer to setup the
> proper value for 'c' before starting the loop instead of checking the
> conditional for every client.
>
>
> Nice work!
>
>
> --pancake
>
>
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 20:20:00 +0100
>
> "Anselm R. Garbe" <arg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:
>
>
> > I investigated further today and refactored a lot. First of all
> > I got rid of dozoom, I extended Layout to contain a Bool
> > isfloating flag as well, which roughly tells dwm that the
> > layout algorithm is floating (hence there are no layers of tiled
> > windows being treated differently if isfloating is True in Layout).
> >
> > I also refactored tile(), which consists of 5 functions now,
> > tilev(), tileh(), tilemaster(), tilevstack(), tilehstack().
> > Due to the change yesterday, I believe that with some testing
> > and bug fixing the bstack layout is a special config.h setting
> > now with different M{X,Y,W,H} and T{X,Y,W,H} settings .
> >
> > I decided to add a tileh() layout which does the following in my
> > multiscreen setup (and which is pretty much similiar to
> > bstack, except that it expands on my second bigger screen), see
> > this screenshot:
> >
> > http://www.suckless.org/shots/dwm-hstack.png
> >
> > I also changed setlayout that it toggles to the previous layout,
> > if it is called twice. Due the fact of tileh, I changed the
> > setlayout keybindings slightly as you will notice on the
> > screenshot.
> >
> > Also, monocle() now works like a floating layout, except that it
> > maximizes all windows to MOX, MOY, MOW, MOH. I decided against
> > rectangle restoring, this is a dynamic WM anyways.
> >
> > I will be offline till Tuesday. Please test the stuff, report
> > bugs and feedback on this list, I will have a look then and
> > consider releasing the stuff next week.
> >
> > Btw. I also changed dmenu yesterday, -b is gone, instead I
> > introduced -x <x> -y <y> -w <w> as command line options.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > --
> > Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
> >
>
>

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