On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 03:11:46PM -0500, Kurt H Maier wrote: > Nothing, except it's completely opposed to the fundamental concept of > dwm. You do not have a per-tag layout. You have a layout. This > layout is in charge of deciding how to render the clients that match > the tags you've selected to be displayed. When you start assigning > layouts to tags instead of to displays, you've lost the simplicity of > the current system. For instance, in your example, what happens when > you alt-tab to the previous tagset? Does the client who just > inherited a layout revert to its previous layout, or does it retain > the layout it just inherited? What happens to the other tags in the > tagset? Do they remain the same, or do they inherit the layout from > the tag that inherited the layout from the original tagset? Even > asking these questions is complex and stupid; there's no way the > answer can make any sense. > > All layout-per-tag essentially does is move dwm from being a > tagged-client window manager to a tagged-workspace window manager. > The former makes sense and can be implemented in a sane way, the > latter requires more complexity and edge-case handling in the code, > and nobody here wants that. > > > -- > # Kurt H Maier >
Seems plausible. I'll have to play around with dwm without the pertag patch for a little while. On the other hand, what do you guys think of the push patch? -- Jake Todd // If it isn't broke, tweak it!
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