Re: [9fans] acme tag bars stacking

[Mathieu Lonjaret <mathieu.lonjaret@gmail.com>]

yeah, good points.

On 29 October 2016 at 00:47, yy <yiyu.jgl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 October 2016 at 16:23, Mathieu Lonjaret
> <mathieu.lonjaret@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Anyway, does anyone know what the rationale was for choosing to stack
>> them at the bottom? Or why it would be a a bad idea to make them stack
>> at the top instead?
>
> Let's suppose you have many windows in a column. When you work in one
> of them, you B2 it and put it on the top of the stack. Then you work
> on another one and it goes to the top, moving the previous one to the
> second position, and so on. This way, your most recently used windows
> are always on top, the least used ones go to the bottom of the stack.
> I would find counterintuitive that the windows you used a longer time
> ago stayed at the top, between your "working windows" and the column
> and main tag lines.
>
> But I would guess the main reason it works this way is that it seemed
> more natural to move a window to the head than to the tail of a linked
> list, and it just worked well enough.
>
> I see how it may be more practical to stack them at the top when
> working only with two or three windows, but it would be kind of weird
> if you have ten. If you feel it will fit your workflow better, it is
> probably not too difficult to get it done.
>
>
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