|I also notice that I rarely use the tagging capabilities dwm
|provides, and that I more and more stick to two views only (one with
|web stuff, and another one with terminals). So I developed a
|window organization approach tonight, which I call 'stereo',
|because it consists of two kinds of windows - currently viewed
|ones, and not-viewed ones.
I won't bore everyone with repeating my rationale for why I like
tags for working on multiple things -- I'm sure they're in the archive.
However, I'll just point out that in my experience there's two
reasons for grouping stuff together: the long term "semantic" reason
(they're part of the same task) and the temporary "limited screen real estate
reason". The key point is that whilst I might be on a temporary tag
with only 2-3 windows (out of 5-10 windows currently on my machine
that relate to the task) open on it so they can be reasonably big, I know
that if I switch back to the "semantic tag" for the task I can select a
different subset from only the possibly relevant windows.
One thing to think about with the "stereo" approach is that if you move
a window to the non-viewed group to clear some space, you've then
got to pick it out of a list of windows, which might potentially be quite
a long list. This might be an issue that only matters to me because I use
relative large numbers of windows and larger-than-average font sizes
so I frequently want just a subset of the windows for space reasons.
Anyway, something to think about.
cheers, dave tweed
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