I think that allowing tabbed windows in dwm (or 2wm) would be really
interesting, so having a list of hidden windows (tabbed in the status
bar or so), and pushing them into a dwm-like tiling.
My idea is:
- you have two different workspaces: fullscreen and tiled
- fullscreen workspace contains pushed (hidden) windows.
- each window frame can containe one or multiple windows.
- each window can be pushed and poped into a fullscreen tabbed workspace
- you can select the window you want to pop alt-tabing in the fs-ws.
In this will be something like:
Workspaces:
tile fullscreen
_______ ______
| | | | |
| |--| | |
|____|__| |______|
Each frame will contain a list of tabbed windows:
____________________________
|#[xterm]#|__mutt__|__irssi__|
| |
| |
| |
|____________________________|
Keybindings can be something like:
- push : moves current window to the fullscreen workspace
- pop : pops current fullscreen window into the current frame
- next : selects next window in current frame
- prev : select previous window in current frame
- zoom : zoom current window frame
- fnext : selects next window frame
- fprev : selects previous window frame
I think, some of these commands can be reassembled together to avoid
design holes. And do things like:
- push/pop - moves from tile-ws to fs-ws.
- zoom : toggle realfullscreen in ws-fs or toggles zoom in tile
- next/prev/fnext/fprev: in fullscreen mode there's no sense for
fnext/fprev window frame, so, these actions must be re-designed..
The attach/detach functionality is really cool, i've used in ion too,
but find't useful but prescindible, but having this feature on a dwm-like
wm would be cool, so it will allow us to remove the tagging (which I don't
usually use't).
What do you think about this new approach?
--pancake
