I opened a github discussion for anyone interested in hacking on this with me https://github.com/qtile/qtile/discussions/2136! I would certainly be incredibly appreciative if anyone can help provide guidance on this!
On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 9:48:03 AM UTC-5 Cullen Ross wrote: > Oh! I just had a better idea! Why not extend the zoomy layout to have > multiple stacks? It'd get pretty complicated for more than two, but for > just two, having the zoomy windows on the left and right for each stack > would be similar to the stackline layout you linked! Combining zoomy with > jonaburg's fork of picom with animations ( > https://github.com/jonaburg/picom) gives a beautiful effect. > Unfortunately the zoomy layout has been problematic for me currently ( > https://github.com/qtile/qtile/issues/2125). Have you had any issues with > it? > > On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 8:26:08 AM UTC-5 Cullen Ross wrote: > >> Ooooo, wow, the stackline would be really nice! i3's method is decent, >> but not really my favorite. I think it conflicts with picom corner rounding( >> https://github.com/ibhagwan/picom) the last time I tried it, although >> it's been a while and perhaps it's better now. >> There is tabbed (https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/) from the suckless >> folks. I'm using it on my bspwm setup and it works well. I'm not sure if it >> makes sense to integrate it into qtile though. >> >> I think I made the suggestion of doing it with the TreeTab side panel is >> because it looks like most of the code is already there. I may try to >> create a frankenstein with snippets from slice, TreeTab, and Stack layouts, >> but not too sure of how it'll go. >> >> On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 5:08:17 AM UTC-5 Guillaume Gelin wrote: >> >>> Eh, I recently starred this repository on GitHub, and would love to see >>> something similar for Qtile: https://github.com/AdamWagner/stackline >>> >>> Another solution would be to implement bars above the windows, à la i3: >>> https://i3wm.org/docs/modes.png >>> >>> I don't have much opinion as to what we should do to propose >>> such a feature. I guess it will mostly depend on who is doing the PR and >>> how they want to implement it. :) >>> >>> Le mar. 19 janv. 2021 à 23:33, Cullen Ross <[email protected]> a écrit : >>> >>>> >>>> I was messing around with the layouts today and one of the things I >>>> really like about stack/columns layout is that they effectively act as a >>>> tabbing layout to have windows side by side but in stacks of a certain >>>> category. The problem I have with them is that you can only identify what >>>> is in the stack by either cycling through the windows or splitting the >>>> stack. The first is a little time-consuming and the second can behave >>>> poorly if you have many windows in the stack and/or the windows don't take >>>> kindly to size changes (e.g. libreoffice in my case). Treetab is a great >>>> layout, but I feel that it is limited by only having the max layout as its >>>> main layout. I think the combination of stack/columns and TreeTab such >>>> that >>>> there can be a number of stacks as well as a panel on the side with the >>>> list of names of each opened window in each stack would be fantastic. My >>>> guess for the simplest way to execute this would be to add an option in >>>> stack/columns layout to display a panel on the side for the window names, >>>> but alternatively the Treetab layout could supposedly use the stack/column >>>> layout instead of the Max layout for each sections. I guess I could try >>>> and >>>> script something in the slice layout so that the script constantly runs >>>> and >>>> provides the list of windows in each stack, but I think this would be more >>>> feasible to be integrated into on of the existing layouts. >>>> >>>> Thoughts? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "qtile-dev" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qtile-dev/45c7b0da-2ead-4205-8a74-0fa091a7baa8n%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qtile-dev/45c7b0da-2ead-4205-8a74-0fa091a7baa8n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Guillaume Gelin >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qtile-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qtile-dev/04e0e127-86d1-4265-a7b9-48da457a1fa2n%40googlegroups.com.
