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

It is trivial to create an action that pops the current client into a
new column.

Want 3 cols without even touching the exclusive flag? Just start 3
clients, and pop 2 of them into new cols.

uriel

On 3/3/06, Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam_AT_wmii.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 02:05:50PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> > See the other mail as well, to summarize, the 'problem' is, that
> > column allows more or less columns than 2, and the larsWM
> > concept does not scale well to more than 2 columns without
> > getting into corner cases as mentioned in the other mail.
> > On the other hand, your points here are not wrong, if they are
> > simply based on your impression by larsWM or tiled layout in
> > 2.5.x. But column layout is rather more flexible (thus complex)
> > then the 2-track concept.
>
> Btw. an easy proof why exclusive flag (aka locking) does not
> work well with column layout is easy. Assume you want to create
> 3 columns. How do you do that with implicit column creation?
>
> - run a terminal
> - set column exclusive (might be the default on a new page)
> - run a second terminal (this is attached to a newly created
> column)
> - set column exclusive (ok, we got two adjacent exclusive
> columns)
> - run a terminal
> (unclear: what happens if the first column is selected?)
> at least a third column needs to be created
> - unset exclusive flag of first column
> - unset exclusive flag of second column
>
> Now compare this with what I'd do instead:
>
> - press Alt-n
> - press Alt-n
> - press Alt-n
>
> What is easier and more predictable?
>
> Regards,
> --
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