On 05/25/2010 03:43 PM, John J. Foerch wrote:
Somewhat more exciting than splitting is that it will be possible to decouple buffers from windows. You will be able to move buffers from window to window. Currently though, we have a lot of code in conkeror built on the assumption that a buffer is fixed in one window, so the overall direction of that roadmap I posted is to rewrite those parts of conkeror. "Internal window management" almost follows as a consequence of window/buffer decoupling, so the two features will evolve together.
As I've mentioned on IRC on various occasions, my own view is that window management should be moved _out_ of Conkeror and into the actual window manager as much as possible, because even though given the limitations of existing window managers, it may in fact for some users be more convenient to have the window management implemented inside programs (e.g. the concept of buffers, tabs, sub-windows, etc.), ultimately it seems clear to me that having a bunch of program-specific, incompatible window management schemes is inferior to having a single unified system. Maybe there are some exceptions, where a unified system just doesn't make sense, but I'd say that simple multiplexing and splitting functionality is not such a case.
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