Re: [xmonad] darcs patch: ThreeColMid - Swap slave window positions

* On Sunday, May 03 2009, Anders Engstrom wrote:

Sun May 3 21:50:26 CEST 2009 Anders Engstrom * ThreeColMid - Swap slave window positions This patch will swap the positions of the two slave windows and this will result in a more intuitive window order. When using focusDown beginning in the master pane we will move in the following graphical order 2->3->1->2->3 instead of 2->1->3->2->1. This is backwards from what is expected.

So instead of going down the two columns alternating between the two, you've changed it to go down a single column at a time?

The small drawback is that increasing from 2 to 3 windows (and therefore also columns) will behave in a less intuitive way. The window in the right column will jump to the left of the screen.

Perhaps there is a way to avoid this issue and keep your changes to the focus behavior: I found ThreeColMid to be quite predictable when I tried it a couple weeks ago. Perhaps you could achieve focusing down a single column with a binding to something like:

windows $ W.focusDown . W.focusDown

Of course with a special case for < 3 windows. Perhaps something like PerLayoutKeys would be required for making such configurations more sane.

I think that it is a good idea to make this change since I rely a lot on the window order but people using WindowNavigation may be of a different opinion.

WindowNavigation users are unaffected by window order, so the only issue would be your changing of the behavior when windows are added.

An alternative is to add an option to select in what way to behave, but that could be overkill... I leave it up to discussion and devs to decide.

I agree about that being overkill. Adam