Re: [dwm] A rather radical thought

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 04:27:34PM +0200, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
> "Anselm R. Garbe" <arg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:
>
> > Here is what I have exactly in mind from a user perspective:
> >
> > Initially there is 1 column, a new client is inserted below the
> > currently selected window in the column, similiar to the stack
> > in tiled layout.
> >
> > Each window can be moved left- or rightwards (Mod1-Shift-{h,l})
> > which may result in a new column if there is none. A
> > new column gets half the size of the current column.
> >
> > Each window can also be moved up- or downwards in the column
> > itself (Mod1-Shift-{j,k}).
> >
> > Columns can be grown/shrinked using Mod1-Control-{h,l}.
> > Windows can be grown/shrinked using Mod1-Control-{j,k}.
> >
> > The navigation is rather straight-forward:
> >
> > Focussing the previous/next window in the current column is done
> > with Mod1-{j,k}, focussing the previous/next column is done with
> > Mod1-{h,l}.
> >
> > So the whole layout concept consists of basically 4 keys with 3
> > kinds of modifiers.
>
> But this wouldn't exclude the tag concept of dwm, it just means giving
> up this tiled and master area concept, or did I get it wrong?

The tagging concept would stay, except the ability of viewing
more than 1 tag at a time (though a specific window could be
sticky because it contains all tags).

> Is your concept limited to horizontal columns or are vertical columns or
> both simultaneously possible?

Theoretically one could do rows from columns, but in practice I
believe that columns just work out very well.

What won't be possible is having rows and columns mixed
together -- at least I won't support this officially.

Kind regards,

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