[dev] [dwm] changing the current view from a function

2013-11-17 Thread Fernando C.V.
Hello, I realised that since several revisions ago (like months ago, actually), the shiftview.c patch [1] is messing up the layouts. Doing something like the following also shows the same issue (should switch to the Tag 5): void shiftview(const Arg *arg) { Arg shifted; shifted.ui = 1 <<

Re: Tags as tags (Was: [dev] Desktop warping for DWM?)

2013-11-17 Thread Markus Teich
Chris Down wrote: > The reason I generally use tags-as-windows rather than tags-at-tags, for > example, is not any one of these things, but because I don't usually have a > need to intersect them, since what is on each tag tends to be of a different > topic to those around it, and I am very aggress

Re: Tags as tags (Was: [dev] Desktop warping for DWM?)

2013-11-17 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-17 11:39:48 +0100, FRIGN wrote: > Fair point, but let's look at it this way: How can users disregard > something they haven't tried out in the first place? Who said they didn't? pgpTAqxKqH3BZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tags as tags (Was: [dev] Desktop warping for DWM?)

2013-11-17 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-17 20:31:59 +0800, Chris Down wrote: > To apply that broadly to all users that don't find tags-as-tags > particularly useful is not really a good way of providing evidence for a > claim. The reason I generally use tags-as-windows rather than > tags-at-tags, for example, is not any one of

Re: Tags as tags (Was: [dev] Desktop warping for DWM?)

2013-11-17 Thread FRIGN
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:31:59 +0800 Chris Down wrote: > To apply that broadly to all users that don't find tags-as-tags > particularly useful is not really a good way of providing evidence for a > claim. Fair point, but let's look at it this way: How can users disregard something they haven't tri

Re: Tags as tags (Was: [dev] Desktop warping for DWM?)

2013-11-17 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-17 11:28:46 +0100, FRIGN wrote: > It inherently does, as most beginners are taught the > Windows/Ubuntu/Gnome-way, which is in fact not offering huge variety > for testing out different usage-concepts. To apply that broadly to all users that don't find tags-as-tags particularly useful i

Re: Tags as tags (Was: [dev] Desktop warping for DWM?)

2013-11-17 Thread FRIGN
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:27:11 +0200 sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote: > huh. What's got tiling to do with tagging? Nothing, I was just giving an example. > It's not about noobs, beginners, experts whatsoever. It's about > willingness to try out different workflows and paradigms and see what is > effi

Re: Tags as tags (Was: [dev] Desktop warping for DWM?)

2013-11-17 Thread stanio
* FRIGN 2013-11-17 13:51 > However, I already had gotten used to the workflow in a tiling > manager. Having to use the mouse to scale the windows and rely on those > few workspaces just showed me how much better it is to be able to > assign tags to specific windows. This flexibility is just impossi

Re: Tags as tags (Was: [dev] Desktop warping for DWM?)

2013-11-17 Thread FRIGN
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:23:19 +0100 Markus Teich wrote: > If I remember correctly, the mentioned blog post was one of the convincing > arguments for me to try out dwm. I find it quite convincing to use tags as > tags, > did it from the beginning and never had a problem with this approach. I trie

Re: Tags as tags (Was: [dev] Desktop warping for DWM?)

2013-11-17 Thread Markus Teich
Manolo Martínez wrote: > On 11/15/13 at 11:14am, Chris Down wrote: >> For my work, I find thinking of the tags as separate desktops is usually the >> way that I end up using them (occasionally I display multiple tags at the >> same time, but I don't think of that as being something I do regularly).