Re: [xmonad] The future of Decoartion

On 06/02/2008, Don Stewart wrote:

brianchina60221:

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On Feb 6, 2008 5:50 PM, Andrea Rossato wrote:

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Some of you may be thinking I'm just rewriting Ion3 in Haskell... my screen shots could even lead you to think I'm *not* using xmonad at all...;)

Sorry to be a little off-topic, but if we're bringing back Ion's features, let's please talk about the idea of having empty panes, ones that don't have clients. For some reason, xmonad seems obsessed with the dwmish idea of resizing everything every time a new application is stopped or started. I find this disconcerting, and it's troublesome for all the remote ncurses applications that have to resize.

I think that would be a relatively easy extension to write, fwiw.

How easy? i've been wanting something like this for ages now. i like the 'tiled' layout but hate the fact that when i close clients, or float them, that the rest of the tiled windows resize as a result. What i also note is the simplefloat layout modifier does this -- i.e., i float clients and nothing else is recomputed in the tiled layout -- but i do not know how to take that component and add it for the tiled layout -- is there a transform for it? Empty pane or something? i dont mind trying to write this extension, but i would need heavy pointers as to where to look. :) David.