Re: [9fans] acme tag bars stacking

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

I must admit, the latest drop in the bucket that made me consider that
change again is: when I unplug the external monitor from my laptop,
not only does rio not automatically switch displays properly (I have
to use my xrandr-based scripts to do that), but even after I've
switched displays, the windows haven't been scaled down.
So I end up with an acme window (that I could, and that I usually end
up resizing down manually), whose bottom is completely hidden, and as
such, so are all the stacked (acme) windows.

Anyway, I should probably first look into making rio automatically
rescale fullscreen windows when switching displays.



On 1 November 2016 at 02:23, Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net> wrote:
> I’ve often wanted the same sorting change. I do, however, find yiyus’ rationale compelling. I’d be interested in playing with it, if you try it out.
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>> On Oct 30, 2016, at 11:16 , Mathieu Lonjaret <mathieu.lonjaret@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> - yiyus || JGL .
>>>
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