> What the hell is "relaxation"? Either way, apps that request increment
> handling
> should work, inc handling is an abomination, but it is part of X, and
> apps depend on it. At some point someone (JG?) was planning the most
> obvious solution: after sizes are assigned with inc-handling
> constraints in mind, stack all apps towards the end of the window,
> whatever space is left is distributed between the apps if it is enough
> to add an extra increment until nothing is left. I don't see why this
> is a problem at all.
What you describe is called 'relaxation' (this term is borrowed
from Donalds TeX typesetting algorithm, when aligning boxes).
However, in dwm I made good results with dropping inrement
handling for managed apps, and supporting it only for floating
apps - that works quite well, also regarding to st which won't
depend on inc handling. If you handle inremental resizals for
managed apps you will always get gaps if all apps in a specific
column request incremental resizals (which is the majority,
because wmii users are terminal users). Thus keep the column
layout algorithm as simple as possible and simply drop
incremental resizals from managed mode.
This whole discussion is completely pointless. The "gap" should only
appear at the bottom of cols, and only if *all* the apps in that col
ask for inc handling.
AND IF PEOPLE DONT LIKE THAT, THEY SHOULD NOT FUCKING USE APPS THAT
REQUEST INC HANDLING. It is that simple. *period*
Most X apps require inc handling to work, starting with xterm, which
is probably the most ubiquitous X app. It is braindamaged, but this is
X, what the fuck did you expect?
And I am sick of having this discussion again and again, LEARN TO
FUCKING LISTEN!
> >It is also needed to update the documentation to at least reflect the
> >new fs. Porting the old wiki to the new format is not of topmost
> >priority either, since 3.5 is only an intermediary release, but also
> >because the new taggi doesn't look feature-stable yet.
Obviously I need to repeat what I told: I asked for converting
the old wiki pages into markdown syntax. How taggi will arrange
the pages/tags is a different question. First we need the
available information in one place.
In other words, you broke everything, and now want somebody else to do
the dirty work for you. The world doesn't work like that: you broke
it, you fix it. Some of us already have enough with having to repeat
the same shit endlessly because you *never* learn.
uriel
