Дана 24/12/06 11:28AM, Hiltjo Posthuma написа: > I prefer to run my (unpublished) map application in SDL in not a special way > (tiling is fine) also. There are other regular applications that use SDL and > run fine in tiling mode etc.
Floating mode in itself is a compromise. It goes against the whole idea of a tiling WM, which is for windows to share the full extent of screen space (hence the name "tiling"). It is a hard concept to get used to for most, who are used to traditional GUIs like Windows and MacOS, but it is what dwm is about. I understand that GIMP is one example of an application which simply wasn't designed to be used in tiling mode, with its floating palettes (though recent versions seem to use only one window, with docked palettes). However, Firefox and programs which use the SDL library are usually meant to take up full screen, so I don't see why would they need to be floating. While we are at the topic, I think that this should be taken one step further in the opposite direction--the existing members of the rules array in config.def.h should be commented out, because they are too specific and add a bit of complexity, however negligible, to stock dwm.
