Re: [wmii] summary of some #wmii talk on 2006-03-02

On 3/3/06, John Nowak <john_AT_johnnowak.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 3, 2006, at 3:22 AM, Christian Simonutti wrote:
>
> > I thought, wmii is dynamic. This statements don't form a dynamic
> > windowmanager.
> >
> > Empty columns? Manually create/remove?
>
> If that isn't dynamic, then I'd suggest no window manager will meet
> your definition of dynamic. I think the notion that wmii is "dynamic"
> is complete bunk to be honest. I have to deal with frames, locking/
> unlocking of frames (at least in 2.5), switching between frames,
> changing display modes, resizing (when something in my browser
> doesn't fit), moving stuff between workspaces, et cetera. If
> anything, wmii is more mental "work" than an overlapping manager,
> which just consists of "this is in the way, I'll move it".
Most of that crap should be gone in wmii-3, and what are arguing here
about removing more operations(create/delete col, and all that other
crap.) Which would certainly simplify things while making them more
dynamic.

uriel
Received on Fri Mar 03 2006 - 12:04:17 UTC