Re: [wmii] suggestions for the sanitizing of swapping

If Wmii can't do swaping and cycling like larswm I would find this
this sad and pathetic.

I don't buy the excuse that wmii's multiple columns system is a
problem, you can always handle cycling and swapping in the context of
the current column and the one to the left of the current column (if
there is one, otherwise the one to the right).

uriel

On 5/6/06, Sander van Dijk <a.h.vandijk_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/6/06, Uriel <lost.goblin_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > You guys are wasting your time, larswm already got swapping and
> > cycling(which is even more important) right many years ago, but Im not
> > even sure garbeam ever learned to use cycling in larswm, no wonder it
> > has never worked in wmi(i), but it was one of the greatest larswm
> > features.
>
> I've used larswm for quite some time and I agree that swapping was
> very useful there. That does not mean that it can be copied to wmii
> "as is" however. There's a fundamental difference between larswm and
> wmii: in wmii neither the amount of columns, nor the amount of clients
> per column is fixed. The reason swapping is simple in larswm is that
> is has only two columns, of which the left one cannot contain more
> than one client. Under those circumstances it is very easy to tell
> where a client should go on swap: to the left "maxcol" if that's not
> where it is, or to the top of the track if it was in the "maxcol". Due
> to wmii's more general column layout (which allows much more
> flexibilty), the decision of what client to swap with is more complex.
> >From my pov, as I already explained yesterday, swapping doesn't really
> fit in the wmii approach, hence I'd personally like to see it removed.
> However, if it is to stay, it should better work _predictable_, which
> it doesn't right now; I'm not trying to reinvent any wheels here, just
> to adapt them so they fit on the wmii vehicle a bit better :-)
>
> Greetings, Sander.
>
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Received on Sat May 06 2006 - 19:34:40 UTC