On 5/6/06, Uriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You guys are wasting your time, larswm already got swapping and cycling(which is even more important) right many years ago, but Im not even sure garbeam ever learned to use cycling in larswm, no wonder it has never worked in wmi(i), but it was one of the greatest larswm features.
I've used larswm for quite some time and I agree that swapping was very useful there. That does not mean that it can be copied to wmii "as is" however. There's a fundamental difference between larswm and wmii: in wmii neither the amount of columns, nor the amount of clients per column is fixed. The reason swapping is simple in larswm is that is has only two columns, of which the left one cannot contain more than one client. Under those circumstances it is very easy to tell where a client should go on swap: to the left "maxcol" if that's not where it is, or to the top of the track if it was in the "maxcol". Due to wmii's more general column layout (which allows much more flexibilty), the decision of what client to swap with is more complex.
From my pov, as I already explained yesterday, swapping doesn't really
fit in the wmii approach, hence I'd personally like to see it removed. However, if it is to stay, it should better work _predictable_, which it doesn't right now; I'm not trying to reinvent any wheels here, just to adapt them so they fit on the wmii vehicle a bit better :-) Greetings, Sander. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
