On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:49:42PM -0701, David E. Thiel wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 01:30:50AM +0000, Jacob Todd wrote: > > Another odd thing I noticed today is that vanilla-dwm changes all of > > tags > > layouts if you change the layout on a tag. Seems odd. > > It's done that for as long as I've used it. It makes some sense that > there aren't per-tag layouts, as the logic for viewing multiple tags > at > once would be weird. > >
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 02:19:58AM -0400, TJ Robotham wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 01:30:50AM +0000, Jacob Todd wrote: > > Another odd thing I noticed today is that vanilla-dwm changes all of tags > > layouts if you change the layout on a tag. Seems odd. > > That would be because you aren't changing the layout on a tag. Tags don't > have > layouts; you are changing the layout of dwm. > > Some of us don't think of tags as distinct workspaces. When I have more than > one tag active at a time, then that's one "workspace" that I've temporarily > built out of that combination, not several workspaces coexisting on one > screen. > From this perspective, assigning the layout to dwm makes a lot more sense than > assigning a layout to each tag. > > Lets pretend each tag can have it's own layout assigned. Lets also say I have two clients open on tag one; tiled, and, and another on tag two; floating, then I mod+ctrl+2 and have tag one and two as a distinct workspace, with tag two inheriting tag one's layout because that's where I executed the toggle from. What's wrong with that? -- Jake Todd // If it isn't broke, tweak it!
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